diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 489a6a961bd..1f90733edbb 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,25 +1,22 @@
-FROM python:3.10-slim-bookworm as builder
-
+FROM python:3.11-slim-bookworm AS builder
+ARG REBUILD_HNSWLIB
 RUN apt-get update --fix-missing && apt-get install -y --fix-missing \
     build-essential \
     gcc \
-    g++ && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    g++ \
+    cmake \
+    autoconf && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
+    mkdir /install
 
-RUN mkdir /install
 WORKDIR /install
 
 COPY ./requirements.txt requirements.txt
 
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade --prefix="/install" -r requirements.txt
+RUN if [ "$REBUILD_HNSWLIB" = "true" ]; then pip install --no-binary :all: --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir --prefix="/install" chroma-hnswlib; fi
 
-FROM python:3.10-slim-bookworm as final
-
-RUN apt-get update --fix-missing && apt-get install -y --fix-missing \
-    build-essential \
-    gcc \
-    g++ && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+FROM python:3.11-slim-bookworm AS final
 
 RUN mkdir /chroma
 WORKDIR /chroma
diff --git a/bin/docker_entrypoint.sh b/bin/docker_entrypoint.sh
index eab12e3795b..e6f2df70be8 100755
--- a/bin/docker_entrypoint.sh
+++ b/bin/docker_entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-echo "Rebuilding hnsw to ensure architecture compatibility"
-pip install --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir chroma-hnswlib
 export IS_PERSISTENT=1
 export CHROMA_SERVER_NOFILE=65535
 exec uvicorn chromadb.app:app --workers 1 --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --proxy-headers --log-config chromadb/log_config.yml --timeout-keep-alive 30
diff --git a/examples/advanced/hadrware-optimized-image.md b/examples/advanced/hadrware-optimized-image.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..41aad017719
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/advanced/hadrware-optimized-image.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Building Hardware Optimized ChromaDB Image
+
+The default Chroma DB image comes with binary distribution of hnsw lib which is not optimized to take advantage of
+certain CPU architectures (Intel-based) with AVX support. This can be improved by building an image with hnsw rebuilt
+from source. To do that run:
+
+```bash
+docker build -t chroma-test1 --build-arg REBUILD_HNSWLIB=true --no-cache .
+```
+