diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d2d26277f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+bin
+dist
+docs
+evals
+tests
+tools
+assets
+notebooks
+cognee-frontend
+
+.dlt
+.venv
+.github
+
+.idea
+.vscode
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f8c3adfed..49ae2e45d 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ RUN apt-get update -q && \
         curl \
         zip \
         jq \
-#        libgl1-mesa-glx \
         netcat-traditional && \
     pip install poetry && \
     curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip" && \
diff --git a/Dockerfile-vanilla b/Dockerfile-vanilla
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..30a2019dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile-vanilla
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+FROM python:3.11-slim
+
+# Set build argument
+ARG DEBUG
+
+# Set environment variable based on the build argument
+ENV DEBUG=${DEBUG}
+ENV PIP_NO_CACHE_DIR=true
+ENV PATH="${PATH}:/root/.poetry/bin"
+
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY pyproject.toml poetry.lock /app/
+
+RUN pip install poetry
+
+# Create virtualenv
+RUN poetry config virtualenvs.create false
+
+# Install the dependencies
+RUN poetry install --no-root --no-dev
+        
+# Set the PYTHONPATH environment variable to include the /app directory
+ENV PYTHONPATH=/app
+
+COPY cognee/ /app/cognee
+
+COPY entrypoint-vanilla.sh /app/entrypoint-vanilla.sh
+RUN chmod +x /app/entrypoint-vanilla.sh
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/app/entrypoint-vanilla.sh"]
diff --git a/docker-compose-vanilla.yml b/docker-compose-vanilla.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7a79e622b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose-vanilla.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+services:
+  cognee:
+    container_name: cognee
+    networks:
+      - cognee-network
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile-vanilla
+    volumes:
+      - .:/app
+      - /app/cognee-frontend/
+    environment:
+      - HOST=0.0.0.0
+      - ENVIRONMENT=local
+      - PYTHONPATH=.
+    ports:
+      - 8000:8000
+      - 5678:5678 # Debugging
+    deploy:
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpus: "4.0"
+          memory: 8GB
+
+  frontend:
+    container_name: frontend
+    build:
+      context: ./cognee-frontend
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile
+    volumes:
+      - "./cognee-frontend:/app"
+    ports:
+      - "3000:3000"
+    networks:
+      - cognee-network
+
+networks:
+  cognee-network:
+    name: cognee-network
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 4ba2227a8..d706d0316 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -26,14 +26,12 @@ services:
       - HOST=0.0.0.0
       - ENVIRONMENT=local
       - PYTHONPATH=.
-    profiles: ["exclude-from-up"]
     ports:
       - 8000:8000
       - 443:443
       - 80:80
       - 50051:50051
-      - 5678:5678
-#      - 5432:5432
+      - 5678:5678 # Debugging
     depends_on:
       - postgres
       - neo4j
diff --git a/entrypoint-vanilla.sh b/entrypoint-vanilla.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ed8b4780a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/entrypoint-vanilla.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+echo "Debug mode: $DEBUG"
+echo "Environment: $ENVIRONMENT"
+
+echo "Starting Gunicorn"
+
+if [ "$ENVIRONMENT" = "local" ]; then
+  if [ "$DEBUG" = true ]; then
+    echo "Waiting for the debugger to attach..."
+
+    python -m debugpy --wait-for-client --listen 0.0.0.0:5678 -m gunicorn -w 3 -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker -t 30000 --bind=0.0.0.0:8000 --log-level debug --reload cognee.api.client:app
+  else
+    gunicorn -w 3 -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker -t 30000 --bind=0.0.0.0:8000 --log-level debug --reload cognee.api.client:app
+  fi
+else
+  gunicorn -w 3 -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker -t 30000 --bind=0.0.0.0:8000 --log-level error cognee.api.client:app
+fi
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 92bf8830f..dd4f35d25 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -8314,14 +8314,13 @@ test = ["big-O", "importlib-resources", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools",
 cli = []
 duckdb = ["duckdb"]
 filesystem = []
-motherduck = ["duckdb", "pyarrow"]
+motherduck = ["duckdb"]
 neo4j = ["neo4j"]
 notebook = ["overrides"]
-parquet = ["pyarrow"]
 qdrant = ["qdrant-client"]
 weaviate = ["weaviate-client"]
 
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.9.0,<3.12"
-content-hash = "0d47b955224bb4f7d52815e63d15b2230dcff86f91a4f79b5533c299f965018b"
+content-hash = "3e894bd32ee1d47a344ad4325731c064271b687b1f6af3c820436dc27f9d06a1"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0b47a792d..ce4f2088d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ sqlalchemy = "^2.0.21"
 instructor = "1.2.1"
 networkx = "^3.2.1"
 debugpy = "^1.8.0"
-pyarrow = "^15.0.0"
+pyarrow = "15.0.0"
 pylint = "^3.0.3"
 aiosqlite = "^0.20.0"
 pandas = "2.0.3"
@@ -75,12 +75,10 @@ anthropic = "^0.26.1"
 langchain-text-splitters = "^0.2.1"
 
 
-
 [tool.poetry.extras]
-parquet = ["pyarrow"]
 duckdb = ["duckdb"]
 filesystem = ["s3fs", "botocore"]
-motherduck = ["duckdb", "pyarrow"]
+motherduck = ["duckdb"]
 cli = ["pipdeptree", "cron-descriptor"]
 weaviate = ["weaviate-client"]
 qdrant = ["qdrant-client"]