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In the reality of the 21st century, people are solving their daily problems through electronic services.The majority of them demand faster, safer and cheaper electronic services.In such world, where the demand is so high, programmers and corporations are looking for solutions to serve the increased demand.While using the most common and old technologies, is quite difficult and tricky to develop and maintain such services.A solution to such problem, could be to divide the original problem, into smaller problems and each problem get solved by a small group of people.This can help programmers, teams and corporations to easily focus on solving customer’s demands and at the same time being extremely productive. This paper explains the meaning behind of virtualization and containerization technologies and software architectural designs such as monolith applications and microservices.In addition, it explains in easy steps, how technologies such as Docker and Java EE can cooperate and provides the information needed to get started to develop services using the microservices architecture