> Curious to know your thoughts on how you manage your infrastructure.

What I quite like about your repo:

- there is a separate API and background job instance
- there is a separate web image, to not always couple front end deployments to back end
- there are specialized data stores like Redis (or maybe RabbitMQ or MinIO in a different type of project)
- Dozzle seems nice https://dozzle.dev/ (I use Portainer mostly, but seems useful)

What I think works quite nicely in general:

- starting out with a monolithic back end but making it modular with feature flags (e.g. FEATURE_REPORTS, FEATURE_EMAILS, FEATURE_API), so that you can deploy vastly different types of workloads in separate containers BUT not duplicate your data model and don't need to extract shared code libraries (yet) and if you ever need to split the codebase into multiple separate ones, then it won't be *too* hard to do that
- having a clear API (RESTful or otherwise) as the contract between a separate back end and front end deployment, so that even if your SPA technology gets deprecated (AngularJS, anyone?) then you can migrate to something, unlike when doing SSR and everything being coupled
- the same applies to NOT having the same container build process have both the front end and back end build (I've seen a Java project install a specific Node version through Maven and then the build dragging on cause Maven ends up processing thousands of files as a part of the build)
- using the right tool for the job: many might create full text search, key-value storage, message queues, JSON document storage, even blob storage all with PostgreSQL and that might be okay; others will go for separate instances of ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, something S3 compatible and so on, probably a tradeoff between using well known libraries and tools vs building everything yourself against a single DB instance
- in my experience, many projects out there are served perfectly fine by a single server so Docker Compose feels like the logical tool to start out with, if multiple instances indeed become necessary, there is always Docker Swarm (yes, still works, very simple), Hashicorp Nomad or K3s or one of the other more manageable Kubernetes distros
- self-hosted (or self-hostable) software in general is pretty cool and gives you a bunch of freedom, though using managed cloud services will also be pleasant for many, more expensive upfront but less so in regards to your own time spent managing the stack; the former also lends itself nicely to being able to launch a local dev environment with the full stack, which feels like a superpower (being able to really test out breaking migrations, look at what happens with the whole stack etc.)
- having some APM and tracing is nice, something like Apache Skywalking was pretty simple to setup, though there are more advanced options out there (e.g. cloud version of Sentry, because good luck running that locally)
- having some uptime monitoring is also very nice, something like Uptime Kuma is just very pleasant to use
- heck, if you really wanted to, you could even self-host a mail server: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver (though that can be viewed as a hobbyist thing), or have MailCatcher / Inbucket or something for development locally