Granite blog

You've built something. Now you need to ship it — fast, reliably, and without becoming a DevOps engineer overnight. That's exactly what a Dockerfile is for. This guide walks you through the core concepts, real syntax, and practical patterns you need to containerize and deploy your first application. No fluff, no unnecessary theory.

This article breaks down how Heroku's PostgreSQL pricing and limits compare to Granite in 2026, with enough detail for you to make a real decision in the next hour.

For solo technical founders launching an MVP on a tight budget, Railway offers the lowest entry cost and fastest setup, while Granite provides a compelling all-in-one alternative with integrated storage and CDN for a predictable $9/month—making either a better starting point than Fly.io or Render for most early-stage projects.

A practical guide to serving a static frontend build locally using Docker Compose, covering everything from a simple Nginx volume mount to full-stack setups with proxying, environment variables, and common troubleshooting fixes.

Why generating package-lock.json on macOS silently breaks your Linux builds — and two ways to fix it.

March is here, which means it’s time to recap all the innovations our team implemented over the past month.

As a solo founder juggling product development, customer support, and growth, every hour counts. You're probably already using AI coding assistants like Cursor to ship faster, but are you leveraging the full power of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to automate your entire development workflow?

When you're building a static site—whether it's a landing page, portfolio, or documentation site—you eventually hit the same wall: forms. You need contact forms, newsletter signups, or feedback forms, but you don't want to spin up a backend server just to handle form submissions.

We are finally ready to introduce the first update to the cloud platform this year.

«We built Granite to make cloud infrastructure as simple as pushing a Docker image,» said Alexander Gorshkov, founder of Granite. «Our mission is to help developers focus on their product, not their servers.»