The Unanticipated Consequences of Containerization

In this special guest feature, Marc MacLeod, Stoplight Founder & CEO, suggests that while containerization and microservices are an effective solution to modern problems of scalability, they also introduce a new set of problems. A lack of cohesive design strategy can lead to a hodgepodge of ill-fitting APIs at companies, with duplicated services, inconsistent design patterns and all the consequences that cascade from there.