Even more, the "solution" to create static binary scales linearly with the number of technologies you use. If you create a tool to create a static binary out of

Even more, the "solution" to create static binary scales linearly with the number of technologies you use. If you create a tool to create a static binary out of your wordpress blog, but you have also Python, node.js, ruby and Perl running, you still lost. Containers offer a standard where you can deploy your applications in a language-independent way, so they avoid this scaling problem. The same is true for most OS-level packages (like rpm and deb), except that they provide much less isolation.