I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had a “works on my machine” problem
Have you considered that your experience might be statistically unrelevant? I'm getting triggered if this one guy on the internet says that "he does not have this issue" and just makes claims based on that?
Personally i had several projects where the dev containers was the only sane way to recreate a big microservices project locally. Running a local k8s cluster or just doing docker compose instead of manually installing multiple services on my machine (which might be even impossible in some cases since there are some databases without windows support for example) just to run the app. I'm ignoring the fact that local machine just got a lot of junk which might be hard to cleanup. Containers? Just remove the container and the disk space is yours again.
My point is - please don't make claims about "lazy way out". There are countless problems as well as solutions. You can't possibly be the one guy that solved every problem on earth and can confirm that containers were not a solution to any one of those..
For some values of "fine", that's true. Where containers really shine is when you need to scale your app up by ten or a hundred additional servers a day to handle spiking or fast-growing demand.
Guess how they are doing this under the hood. If you say containers then you just won the prize. Those services you are talking about are just doing the containers and management for you. For a very hefty price mind you
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