diff --git a/src/development/elasticsearch/compose.yaml b/src/development/elasticsearch/compose.yaml
index 9df8a7db..4e0db07f 100644
--- a/src/development/elasticsearch/compose.yaml
+++ b/src/development/elasticsearch/compose.yaml
@@ -12,14 +12,20 @@ services:
     deploy:
       labels:
         - dargstack.profiles=zammad
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          memory: 1536m
+        reservations:
+          memory: 512m
     environment:
       bootstrap.memory_lock: "true"
       discovery.type: single-node
       ELASTIC_PASSWORD_FILE: /run/secrets/elasticsearch-password
-      ES_JAVA_OPTS: -Xms1g -Xmx1g
+      ES_JAVA_OPTS: -Xms512m -Xmx512m
       # The helpdesk sends bulk requests that exceed the 100mb default while it rebuilds its search index.
       http.max_content_length: 400mb
       KEYSTORE_PASSWORD_FILE: /run/secrets/elasticsearch-keystore-password
+      xpack.ml.enabled: "false"
     healthcheck:
       test: ["CMD-SHELL", "NETRC=$$(mktemp) && printf 'machine localhost\\nlogin elastic\\npassword %s\\n' \"$$(cat /run/secrets/elasticsearch-password)\" > \"$$NETRC\" && curl -fsS --netrc-file \"$$NETRC\" --cacert /usr/share/elasticsearch/config/certs/http_ca.crt 'https://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?wait_for_status=yellow&timeout=5s' && rm -f \"$$NETRC\" || { rm -f \"$$NETRC\"; exit 1; }"]
       interval: 30s
diff --git a/src/development/redpanda/compose.yaml b/src/development/redpanda/compose.yaml
index 57ec8045..09914fdd 100644
--- a/src/development/redpanda/compose.yaml
+++ b/src/development/redpanda/compose.yaml
@@ -3,15 +3,24 @@ services:
     # You can access the event streaming platform's ui as described under `redpanda-console`.
     command:
       - redpanda start
-      - --mode dev-container # dargstack:dev-only
-      - --kafka-addr internal://0.0.0.0:9092,external://0.0.0.0:19092
       - --advertise-kafka-addr internal://redpanda:9092,external://localhost:19092
-      - --pandaproxy-addr internal://0.0.0.0:8082,external://0.0.0.0:18082
       - --advertise-pandaproxy-addr internal://redpanda:8082,external://localhost:18082
+      - --kafka-addr internal://0.0.0.0:9092,external://0.0.0.0:19092
+      - --memory 512M
+      - --mode dev-container # dargstack:dev-only
+      - --pandaproxy-addr internal://0.0.0.0:8082,external://0.0.0.0:18082
+      - --reserve-memory 0M
       - --schema-registry-addr internal://0.0.0.0:8081,external://0.0.0.0:18081
+      - --smp 1
     deploy:
       labels:
         - dargstack.profiles=event-streaming
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpus: '1.0'
+          memory: 1024M
+        reservations:
+          memory: 512M
     healthcheck:
       test: ["CMD", "rpk", "cluster", "health", "--exit-when-healthy"]
       interval: 30s