Well. There used to be a virtual machines hype, too. I remember it. A plateau of productivity did happen (look at the market cap of VMWare), but VMs have not ex

Well. There used to be a virtual machines hype, too. I remember it. A plateau of productivity did happen (look at the market cap of VMWare), but VMs have not exactly become the standard way to run an application on a computer. Since containers existed, VMs and containers both added features from the other. For VMs, mostly lower resource overhead (admin tools were pretty nice even before containers). For containers, mostly better isolation. So if anybody mentions blah blah containers, just substitute "VMs" and check if it still sounds cool.