diff --git a/DEVELOPER.md b/DEVELOPER.md
index 8d8ad75b..551a4592 100644
--- a/DEVELOPER.md
+++ b/DEVELOPER.md
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ export $(grep -v '^#' .env | xargs -0)
 # Hint: there is a known issue with uwsgi. It's not used in the local dev environment. Feel free to comment it in `engine/requirements.txt`.
 cd engine && pip install -r requirements.txt
 
-# Create folder for database
-mkdir sqlite_data
-
 # Migrate the DB:
 python manage.py migrate
 
@@ -107,7 +104,7 @@ python manage.py issue_invite_for_the_frontend --override
 OnCall API URL: 
 http://host.docker.internal:8000
 
-OnCall Invitation Token (Single use token to connect Grafana instance):
+Invitation Token (Single use token to connect Grafana instance):
 Response from the invite generator command (check above)
 
 Grafana URL (URL OnCall will use to talk to Grafana instance):
diff --git a/docker-compose-developer.yml b/docker-compose-developer.yml
index 08ce52fc..da915f78 100644
--- a/docker-compose-developer.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-developer.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ services:
     ports:
       - 3306:3306
     environment:
-      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: local_dev_pwd
+      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: empty
       MYSQL_DATABASE: oncall_local_dev
     healthcheck:
       test: [ "CMD", "mysqladmin" ,"ping", "-h", "localhost" ]
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ services:
   mysql-to-create-grafana-db:
     image: mariadb:10.2
     platform: linux/x86_64
-    command: bash -c "mysql -h mysql -uroot -plocal_dev_pwd -e 'CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS grafana CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;'"
+    command: bash -c "mysql -h mysql -uroot -pempty -e 'CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS grafana CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;'"
     depends_on:
       mysql:
         condition: service_healthy
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ services:
       GF_DATABASE_TYPE: mysql
       GF_DATABASE_HOST: mysql
       GF_DATABASE_USER: root
-      GF_DATABASE_PASSWORD: local_dev_pwd
+      GF_DATABASE_PASSWORD: empty
       GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_USER: oncall
       GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD: oncall
       GF_PLUGINS_ALLOW_LOADING_UNSIGNED_PLUGINS: grafana-oncall-app
diff --git a/engine/settings/dev.py b/engine/settings/dev.py
index aff8ca9d..ba1b3022 100644
--- a/engine/settings/dev.py
+++ b/engine/settings/dev.py
@@ -10,14 +10,29 @@ MIRAGE_SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get(
 )
 MIRAGE_CIPHER_IV = os.environ.get("MIRAGE_CIPHER_IV", "tZZa+60zTZO2NRcS")
 
-# Primary database must have the name "default"
+# Workaround to use pymysql instead of mysqlclient
+import pymysql
+
+pymysql.install_as_MySQLdb()
+
 DATABASES = {
     "default": {
-        "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.sqlite3",
-        "NAME": os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "sqlite_data/db.sqlite3"),  # noqa
+        "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.mysql",
+        "NAME": os.environ.get("MYSQL_DB_NAME", "oncall_local_dev"),
+        "USER": os.environ.get("MYSQL_USER", "root"),
+        "PASSWORD": os.environ.get("MYSQL_PASSWORD"),
+        "HOST": os.environ.get("MYSQL_HOST", "127.0.0.1"),
+        "PORT": os.environ.get("MYSQL_PORT", "3306"),
+        "OPTIONS": {
+            "charset": "utf8mb4",
+            "connect_timeout": 1,
+        },
     },
 }
 
+os.environ.setdefault("OSS", "True")
+INSTALLED_APPS += ["apps.oss_installation"]  # noqa
+
 TESTING = "pytest" in sys.modules or "unittest" in sys.modules
 
 READONLY_DATABASES = {}