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title: "Microservices and Containers: The View from Above"
description: Microservices provide a powerful way to build applications that are more flexible, resilient and potentially secure.
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# Microservices and Containers: The View from Above

Microservices provide a powerful way to build applications that are more flexible, resilient and potentially secure. Many IT teams are also now discovering, however, that unless managed and governed effectively, microservices can quickly become too much of a good thing.

DevOps teams of all sizes are finding they need to manage microservices running on multiple disparate platforms that are updated continuously by different development teams. A comprehensive strategy that encompasses everything from how microservices are constructed and deployed to managed and governed clearly will be crucial for success.

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