# What is the granular flex package?

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Granular mode refers to running each microservice in its own deployment container. A typical production instance would be running multiple containers per service for high availability. Since our suite consists of many microservices, launching all of them locally can be very resource-intensive for your local setup. This also creates a need for a significant amount of additional hardware when running in production.