The document discusses microservices architecture and containers. It notes that monolithic applications are inflexible in terms of scalability, independence of components, and deployment flexibility. Microservices break applications into independent components that can be developed and deployed independently. Containers enable microservices by allowing each service to run in its own "self-contained" environment, sharing the operating system but not resources. Kubernetes is mentioned as a tool for managing containers at scale across multiple machines. Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) is also discussed as important for automating deployments of microservices.