Docker Compose is especially useful for making the relationships between the frontend, API, and database explicit and reproducible. One production detail worth emphasizing is that container startup order does not always mean service readiness, so health checks and retry logic remain important. I would also keep secrets outside the images, use multi-stage builds to reduce image size, pin critical dependencies, and run application containers as non-root users. A follow-up comparing the development and production Compose configurations would be very useful.