
The Case Against Always Using Containers
Picture this: it’s 2025, and somewhere in a Slack channel, a junior developer just suggested containerizing their monolithic legacy application running a single Python script that processes monthly payroll reports. The senior architect nods approvingly without reading the suggestion. Everyone’s using containers now, so containers must be good, right? Well, sit down, because we need to talk about how containerization has become the architectural equivalent of suggesting everyone should learn Rust....



