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Discussion on: Which trend or advancement is being overlooked by most developers?

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Containers and container orchestration wasn't mentioned here (maybe the movement is over?) but it is changing the way apps are developed, tested, and deployed across the board.

I wouldn't call it an overlooked example though :D Containers are talked about everywhere. I'm almost "tired" of hearing about Docker and k8s :P

it is not a far stretch of the imagination to see containerized applications running on client machines as a deployment option

Really interesting, didn't think about this. The only issue I see is that containerized desktop apps will always look foreign to the system if run in a different OS but you made me think about a couple of possible advantages:

  • sandboxing and security (you already have sandboxing in modern OS through virtualization)
  • running old apps that are not supported by the host OS (but again, isn't this already accomplished by virtualization?)

What do you think?