[mmcnl]

Strangely enough I'm at the complete opposite end of the author. Docker Compose imo operates exactly at the right abstraction layer and to me the author never really explains what the problems with Docker Compose actually are.

Imo Docker Compose absolutely should not handle databases and web servers. It should orchestrate containers. It's up to the user what kind of containers should be orchestrated.

Also the author somehow never got the idea to run the reverse proxy in a container? You don't need to do any port mapping then.