### Separate Program

To achieve this, you will normally have a **separate program** that would make sure your application is run on startup. And in many cases, it would also make sure other components or applications are also run, for example, a database.

### Example Tools to Run at Startup

Some examples of the tools that can do this job are:

* Docker

A command line tool that will **process your code** and update most of the things **automatically** for you. Make sure you have your code in git first, and review each of the changes to make sure everything is correct before committing the changes.

### Pydantic v1

```Python
callback_url = "https://example.com/api/v1/invoices/events/"
httpx.post(callback_url, json={"description": "Invoice paid", "paid": True})
```

But possibly the most important part of the callback is making sure that your API user (the external developer) implements the *external API* correctly, according to the data that *your API* is going to send in the request body of the callback, etc.

If you run **multiple processes per container** (for example with the official Docker image) you will have to make sure that the number of processes started doesn't **consume more memory** than what is available.

## Previous Steps Before Starting and Containers