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Drill 6: Trade-off — Compose a real stack

Explain the trade-off in this example.

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Explain the trade-off in this example.

compose.yamlYAML
services:
  app:
    build: .
    ports: ["3000:3000"]
    environment:
      DATABASE_URL: postgres://app:secret@db:5432/app
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy
  db:
    image: postgres:16-alpine
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: app
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: secret
      POSTGRES_DB: app
    volumes:
      - pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U app"]
      interval: 5s
      retries: 10
volumes:
  pgdata:
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