The "special snowflake" problem is the primary reason VMs and containers are better - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html http://martinfowler.com

The "special snowflake" problem is the primary reason VMs and containers are better - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SnowflakeServer.html While VMs and containers in VMs don't utilize the hardware as efficiently as a dedicated server they make your people much more efficient and happy. Unless you are running at a fairly large scale making your people more efficient gives you a much better ROI than making your servers more efficient.