alt Hacker NewsShould you have a turkey sandwich for lunch in 2026? I don't know buddy just do whatever. There are ten thousand other sandwiches you could eat surely, but does turkey sound good for you?
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Surely we can give more informed answers to questions like this than to compare a technical decision to the craving for a sandwich.
Comments like this are apathetic and reduce the challenges of good software engineering to hopes and random chance.
If you already understand it all in-depth, anything becomes "are the benefits worth the trade-offs" but it's useless advice for the people who don't
Caffeine is healthy. Caffeine is unhealthy. Caffeine is healthy again. Eggs are healthy. Eggs are unhealthy. Etc etc etc.
There’s a reason articles like this exist. Things change.
Is your point that we shouldn't motivate our technological choices? I wouldn't use Docker Compose in production.
> does turkey sound good for you?
What if you can't by yourself objectively evaluate if turkey sandwich sounds good?
It's not a matter of giving a universal answer to whether docker compose in production is fine, but how to evaluate it. Which features or safeguards necessary for a healthy production environment you forfeit when choosing plain docker compose? What's the tradeoff?