Convox engineer here. This post dances around the point. There is lots of room for improvement in getting new developers up and running with a code base. Conv

Convox engineer here. This post dances around the point. There is lots of room for improvement in getting new developers up and running with a code base. Convox and Otto share similar goals of one command to start and application and one command to deploy it. The differ in that Convox is a thin AWS layer. Deploying to Convox configures EC2 Container Service, ELBs, and Kinesis Stream to run your dockerized application.