What’s the Point of Containers Anyway?

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Have you heard of Docker? Or maybe containers? If you’ve been in software the past few years, you probably have.

There also might be a chance that you have no idea what these technologies are. Or you might know what they are but have no clue why you would use them. Or worse — you might be at a company going through a “DevOps transformation” being forced to use these technologies, and no one can…