Worked on improving the reliability of the single-node deployment process for the bloomberg/blazingmq repository by addressing a startup sequencing issue in Docker Compose. Focused on DevOps practices and container orchestration, the developer modified the YAML configuration to ensure that the bmqbrkr service starts before bmqtool, eliminating race conditions that previously caused startup failures. This adjustment enhanced the predictability of both developer onboarding and continuous integration environments. By leveraging Docker and YAML, the work demonstrated attention to deployment dependencies and contributed to a smoother development workflow, even though the primary contribution during the period was a targeted bug fix rather than new features.