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Vikram Vaswani · Vikram Vaswani · commit d9f5b6191e67 · 2025-08-01T18:17:35.000Z
Signed-off-by: Vikram Vaswani &lt;vikram@dagger.io&gt;
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+## Run the application with Docker Compose
 
+```
+docker compose up
+```
+
+## Write to the API
+
+```
+curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"title": "Dune", "author": "Frank Herbert"}' http://localhost:8000/api/books/
+```
+
+## Read from the API
+
+```
+curl http://localhost:8000/api/books/
+```
+
+## Run tests
+
+```
+docker exec -it fastapi_app bash
+pytest # in the container shell
+```
