- Add init_database() with alembic programmatic API and retry logic
- Add connection retry with exponential backoff (5 attempts)
- Improve error messages for connection/auth failures
- Add table existence check before seeding data
- Update startup event to run migrations before seeding
- Add wait-for-db.sh script for Docker containers
- Update Docker and docker-compose configurations
Quality gates: ruff ✓, mypy ✓, unit tests (8 passed)