@communicating in sum, azk gives you a lightweight & simple hub to compose and manage your application and spare you a lot of time... hope this helps!
@communicating e.g., azk lets you control other services involved (like a database) and consolidate your functional architecture in a single manifest file
@communicating hi! sorry for the delay on this answer. so, yes, azk can be looked on as as multistack virtualenv or the equivalent (but "on steroids") ;)