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Should 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
by 2ndorderthought 6mo ago
Should 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?
- another-dave 6mo agoIf 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
- poly2it 6mo agoIs your point that we shouldn't motivate our technological choices? I wouldn't use Docker Compose in production.
- 2ndorderthought 6mo agoYes. I clearly believe we should not motivate choices in technology.
- close04 6mo agoBut then if you're not going to answer a question on technology, and you won't motivate any of the choices, including the one to not give an answer, what's the value in participating to the conversation? Your entire original comment looks like just an opportunity to be snarky. It's a longer version of "whatever", which you can literally throw around as an answer to anything. In case you were curious, the subheading of the article already answers the question posed by the title: > Yes, plain Docker Compose can still run production workloads in 2026—if you close the operational gaps it leaves: cleanup, healing, image pinning, socket security, and updates.
- jagged-chisel 6mo agoI also would not eat a turkey sandwich for lunch on a Tuesday. *shudder*
- JodieBenitez 6mo agoI wouldn't use Docker in production.
- malux85 6mo agoSpotify, Visa, NASA, Netflix, and a zillion others do, why not?
- worksonmine 6mo agoThere are more secure alternatives. Are you sure those you listed actually use it on the servers? I would guess that at least Spotify and Netflix uses some other container runtime than Docker on their production servers. For a long time Docker was helpful and opened exposed ports on the firewall. So you wanted to access your redis ports locally and exposed it on the container? Now everything in there is accessible on the open internet. I believe they've fixed it but I haven't used Docker in years so I wouldn't know.
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- b40d-48b2-979e 6mo agoThey are not using Docker at runtime for their services. Every company uses Docker for builds unless they have a particular cost or ethos they're avoiding and purely using Linux/podman/buildah/et al. Thinking about it a little further, though, I believe Rancher Desktop has come a long way and may be eating market share.
- JodieBenitez 6mo agoI just never felt the need for it. I'm not saying it's bad (I really don't know), it's just one of these things that solve problems I don't have.
- ahoka 6mo agoMost companies I’ve seen from the inside were using containerd or crio.
- jiggunjer 6mo agoI note the absence of a motivation.
- gchamonlive 6mo ago> 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?
- nathanmills 6mo agoThen you either need to try it or research it. Other people can't tell you if you like turkey or not.
- gchamonlive 6mo agoSo we agree people shouldn't write off these posts with "does turkey sandwich sounds good to you" like it's some deep insight to default to the trivial answer?
- stirfish 6mo agoDoes a turkey sandwich sound good to you? Yes: okay try it No: okay you don't have to try it Unsure: okay you can read about it some more and decide if it sounds good to you
- gchamonlive 6mo agoAre we still talking about infrastructure?
- bigbinary 5mo agoI think we’re in a deep debate about how to name articles
- 2ndorderthought 6mo agoIt's not a deep insight. Neither is the title of the article. It tells the reader nothing and makes the author sound like they have nothing to say.
- nixpulvis 6mo agoSurely 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.
- dec0dedab0de 6mo agoThe analogy you are replying to is pointing out that it works just fine for production, so if you should use it or not is simply a matter of taste. More to the point, there is no objectively right answer of what stack you should use. There are plenty of objectively wrong answers, but compose isn't one of them.
- fragmede 6mo agoEven the wrong answers, it comes down to who's dealing with the mess? Who's paying for the site's uptime? Who isn't getting paid while the site isn't up?
- cheschire 6mo agoCaffeine 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.
- sunaookami 6mo agoWhat does this have to do with the article?
- 7bit 5mo agoSome people like to hear themselves talk
- gitaarik 5mo agoI don't think you should only let "if it sounds good" determine what you eat