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Containers — a lightweight VM alternative — are some of the most widely used cloud technologies associated with DevOps and agile software development today. Much of the hype behind containerization can be attributed to its agility, flexibility, and security.

If you go to any developer conference in the world, there will definitely be mentions of Docker, Kubernetes, and other such names that sound straight out of a nautical environment. With so much information, it's natural to get confused about what containerization and its examples are, and why it is so relevant today. 

Imagine you were feeling ill and could chat with your primary care doctor about your symptoms—without having to get up from your couch, without compromising the ongoing social distancing and self-quarantine mandates. This isn’t a newfangled piece of technology that may exist in the future, years from now. This currently exists—has existed in various forms for decades—and it’s called “telemedicine.” 

It’s no secret that healthcare is a perpetually in-demand field.

The animated cartoon The Jetsons, set in a technologically advanced future, briefly showcases the youngest son Elroy video conferencing with his doctor.

Modern businesses share digital space with one another and the internet, so the possibility of security attacks or breaches has increased significantly.

Banana yellow file folders, with patients’ names handwritten on stick-on labels, were de rigueur at the family physician I visited as a child all the way up until college.

Companies use PaaS solutions to build, deploy, and maintain applications. These tools can be confused with infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings, but PaaS solutions offer a much wider range of development tools and prebuilt application components.

Instead of giving credence to fear-mongering books and films about artificially intelligent beings taking over the world and turning on humans (The Terminator, anyone?), it’s time we took a hard look at the proven benefits and potential risks of some real-world applications of artificial intelligence. 

The events we have lived through and the knowledge we have gained from those happenings make us who we are.