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Shipping a whole apartment instead of mailing furniture and hoping it assembles correctly.

means Lightweight, isolated packages bundling an app with everything it needs to run identically on any machine.

from Borrowed straight from shipping: steel boxes standardized cargo in the 1950s, so software stole the metaphor for portable, stackable code.

Docker boomMade containers mainstream in 2013, not the inventor.
Not virtual machinesThey share the host kernel, skipping a full OS.
KubernetesGreek for helmsman, herds containers at scale.
Lightning fastStart in seconds, not minutes like VMs.
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