I think one of the main problems with Alpine adaption is due to how the official run-times are set up on the Docker hub.<p>- Python-slim uses debian:jessie<p>- Ruby-slim uses debian:jessie<p>- Node-slim uses debian:jessie<p>Your web application is probably going to pull in from one of those run-times which automatically sets you up to use jessie.<p>I&#x27;d also like to see someone take a random large project and see if their native extensions compile under Alpine without any other dependencies and to compare the final image size of a real world web app with alpine vs jessie.<p>It&#x27;s sort of a micro benchmark to compare it like this because a project with 75 gems&#x2F;packages and a couple of native extensions that need to be compiled will drastically increase the size of your image, with or without Alpine.<p>I absolutely do think it&#x27;s worth optimizing your images, but this seems like something that may end up being quite personal to your app because it will require a bit of tinkering to get everything your app needs to work. I also wouldn&#x27;t bother doing it until I was constantly pulling them down in production to auto-scale.