O brother, where are thou?

They have a plan, but not a clue

Microservices

• a specialisation of and implementation approach for service-oriented architectures (SOA)
  
• used to build flexible and
  
• independently deployable software systems
  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices

Scaffolding projects

• Generators
  Yeoman
  JHipster
  Spring Initilizer
• Build tools
  Stack new
  sbt (Activator)
  many more...

Standardizing the Shipping of Software

The idea is that before shipping containers were invented, manufacturers had to be prepared to ship goods in a wide variety of modes – ships, trains, or trucks – with different sized containers and packaging. By standardizing the shipping container, goods could be seamlessly transferred among shipping methods without any additional preparation.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/cloud/containers/definitions/what-are-containers-like-docker-linux-containers/

Docker

https://www.docker.com/what-docker