A paradigm shift in any industry happens once in a while. Software development is not an exception here. Most of the time, we experience incremental improvements and inspired duplicated products and services.

Microservices and Containerization is a paradigm shift in modern scalable web application development. Can you think of scaling an application without microservice architecture and containerization? 

We would have ended up creating mammoth replicas of those monolithics and consumed tons and tons of resources. On one side, we would have wasted a vast amount of resources (think of e-waste, carbonation, electricity consumption, etc., Our mother nature would have cursed us :)). In addition, we would have substantially compromised the agility of scaling applications on a demand basis. Indeed with the challenges in scaling monolithic applications, we wouldn’t have even thought about some of the applications/products that exist today. If those applications (think of any modern highly scalable applications targeted for millions and billions of users) did not exist, we would have been living a different life without them. Isnt it?

The invention of microservice and containerization is on par with what touch screen mobile has done for mobile users. Its changed our world altogether. Now we can classify people who lived before the touch screen invention and later. It is such an impact on software development with Microservices and Containerization. 

Long live microservices & containerization (cloud is standing right next them ;))

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