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☕ Microservices Without Docker Is Like Tea Without Sugar
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Let’s get straight to the point:
Building microservices without Docker is like drinking tea without sugar — technically possible, but bitter, frustrating, and missing the very thing that makes it delightful.
Microservices are meant to bring agility, scalability, and independence to your architecture. But try doing that without a containerization solution like Docker, and you’ll quickly find yourself tangled in a web of dependency hell, version mismatches, and deployment nightmares.
This article explores why Docker is the sugar that sweetens the microservices experience, and why building microservices without it is an architectural misstep you should avoid.
🧱 The Nature of Microservices
First, let’s understand what microservices aim to solve.
In a microservices architecture:
- You break a large application into small, independently deployable services.
- Each service handles a specific business…
