[arohner]

We built our own .deb containing all our bits, that depends on external dependencies. The .deb recipe is checked into source. Our deploy process is

    1) compile the .deb.
    2) spawn a new, empty EC2
    3) apt-get the .deb
    4) lein daemon start (http://github.com/arohner/lein-daemon)

[kyleburton]

Ah, lein-daemon - didn't know about that, thanks!