Introduction
About a decade ago, there was a lot of discussion over software development paradigms such as service-oriented architecture, agile development, and software design patterns. In hindsight, those were all great ideas, but only a few of them were practically adopted a decade ago.
One of the major reasons for the lack of adoption of these paradigms is that the underlying infrastructure couldn't offer the resources or capabilities for abstracting fine-grained software components and managing an optimal software development life cycle. Hence, a lot of duplicated efforts were still required for resolving some common issues of software development such as managing software dependencies and consistent environments, software testing, packaging, upgrading, and scaling.
In recent years, with Docker at the forefront, containerization technology has provided a new encapsulation mechanism that allows you to bundle your application, its runtime, and its dependencies, and also...
