US Patent 10268531 Managing delivery of code and dependent data using application containers

In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a supervisor component executing at a computing device, a request to execute an application; responsive to determining that an application container for maintaining installable sub-packages of the application is allocated in memory of the computing device, determining, by a container runtime of the application container, one or more dependencies of the application; retrieving, by the container runtime, the one or more dependencies; and responsive to retrieving the one or more dependencies, executing, by the application container, the application.