Granite blog

Seven real debugging scenarios with docker exec: missing shells, distroless images, crash loops, broken env vars, database dumps and the TTY traps that corrupt them.

Your Railway DB bill jumped and you can't explain why. Here is an honest comparison and a step-by-step migration of app and database to Granite.so in one afternoon.

Granite now tells you when something breaks: failing healthchecks, crash loops, out-of-memory kills and failed deploys land in an event log, on your webhook and in your inbox.

Five multi-stage Dockerfile build patterns that cut image size, speed up CI, and keep secrets out of your layers, with copy-paste examples for Node, Go, and Python.

Your droplet isn't saving you money if it costs you a 6-hour outage. Here's what a platform as a service actually takes off your plate, and how to move a Docker app onto one.

How to host a Telegram bot so it survives restarts: long polling vs webhooks, a Dockerfile, Postgres for data, and what 24/7 actually costs.

Bigger, Faster, and Built to Last

GHCR is a great place to store your Docker images — but it doesn't run them. This guide breaks down what GitHub Container Registry actually does, where teams hit the wall trying to deploy on top of it, and how to decide between rolling your own infrastructure, pairing GHCR with a managed platform, or skipping the registry question entirely. Includes a concrete GitHub Actions walkthrough and an honest take on the trade-offs.

You typed  docker ps , hit enter, and got something like this: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running? Or maybe the Windows variant:  error during connect: this error may indicate that the docker daemon is not running. Read this article to find out how to fix these issues.

A practical guide to managing API keys, database passwords, and other credentials in production. Covers git hygiene, environment separation, secret managers, rotation strategies, least-privilege scoping, runtime injection, and monitoring — with a phased rollout plan for small teams.