Docker Compose at the Growth Threshold: When Your Engineering Team Size Forces the First Orchestration Decision
Container orchestration decisions rarely arrive as a scheduled milestone. More often, a team wakes up to find that Docker Compose—once the quiet workhorse of local development and small-scale deployment—has become a constraint. The trigger is usually headcount: more engineers, more services, more environments to keep synchronized. This article maps the documented boundaries where Compose ends…
