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@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ Then visit the new Wordpress site.
 
 > http://localhost:8010
 
+On the first run, you'll have to wait some seconds for the database to
+initialise before running through the initial installation. We don't make use
+of something like [wait-for-it](https://github.com/vishnubob/wait-for-it)
+because the `depends_on` stanza makes Docker swarm wait for it to come up on
+the production deploy. So, we can just avoid doing this altogether for the
+development workflow to save ourselves work.
+
 ## Production
 
 1. Our [drone.autonomic.zone](https://drone.autonomic.zone/autonomic-cooperative/wordpress/) configuration automatically deploys.