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Docker Compose Healthcheck: Stop Trusting depends_on

depends_on only waits for a container to start. Here is how Docker Compose healthcheck, service_healthy and up --wait fix cold-start failures, plus the restart gap.

Rayyan | October 6, 2026 | 8 min

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Docker Best Practices in 2026: What I Stopped Doing in Production

Six Docker habits I dropped from production in 2026, the ones I kept, and the small changes that cut image size, build time, and CVE…

Rayyan | May 21, 2026 | 7 min