There’s not a lot of good container architecture and design talent out there either, so the number of bad container architectures I’m seeing is about two out of every three projects.

Of course, a container-based architecture isn’t without challenges. Back-pressure effects with dependent services and the complexity of managing different services are two examples.

Containers stacked like Lego building blocks, or with one layer perpendicular to the next. Architects love stuff like this, just like they throw around usually misleading/meaningless phrases like ...

The new multilayer approach replaces the company’s original single-layer container image architecture, which bundled all content into one large unit.

The key here was mobility; the next year when the containers were empty the building would be shipped south again. (A container cost $ 5,000 in 1970 dollars, you didn't just abandon it).