diff --git a/build.clj b/build.clj
index 701b10b..0c7a1ed 100644
--- a/build.clj
+++ b/build.clj
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 (ns build
   (:require [clojure.tools.build.api :as b]
-            [clojure.string :as str]))
+            [deps-deploy.deps-deploy :as dd]))
 
 (def lib 'com.fluree/raft)
 (def version "1.0.0")
 (def class-dir "target/classes")
-(def basis (b/create-basis {:project "deps.edn"}))
+(def basis (delay (b/create-basis {:project "deps.edn"})))
 (def jar-file (format "target/%s-%s.jar" (name lib) version))
 
 (defn clean [_]
@@ -15,12 +15,20 @@
   (b/write-pom {:class-dir class-dir
                 :lib lib
                 :version version
-                :basis basis
+                :basis @basis
                 :src-dirs ["src"]
+                :src-pom nil
                 :scm {:url "https://github.com/fluree/raft"
                       :connection "scm:git:git://github.com/fluree/raft.git"
                       :developerConnection "scm:git:ssh://git@github.com/fluree/raft.git"
-                      :tag (str "v" version)}})
+                      :tag (str "v" version)}
+                :pom-data [[:description "A Raft consensus algorithm implementation for Clojure"]
+                          [:url "https://github.com/fluree/raft"]
+                          [:licenses
+                           [:license
+                            [:name "Eclipse Public License 1.0"]
+                            [:url "https://opensource.org/license/epl-1-0/"]
+                            [:distribution "repo"]]]]})
   (b/copy-dir {:src-dirs ["src" "resources"]
                :target-dir class-dir})
   (b/jar {:class-dir class-dir
@@ -28,7 +36,7 @@
 
 (defn install [_]
   (jar nil)
-  (b/install {:basis basis
+  (b/install {:basis @basis
               :lib lib
               :version version
               :jar-file jar-file
@@ -36,12 +44,6 @@
 
 (defn deploy [_]
   (jar nil)
-  (try
-    ((requiring-resolve 'deps-deploy.deps-deploy/deploy)
-     {:installer :remote
-      :artifact jar-file
-      :pom-file (b/pom-path {:lib lib :class-dir class-dir})})
-    (catch Exception e
-      (if-not (str/includes? (ex-message e) "Could not find artifact")
-        (throw e)
-        (println "Ignoring deploy exception:" (ex-message e))))))
\ No newline at end of file
+  (dd/deploy {:installer :remote
+              :artifact (b/resolve-path jar-file)
+              :pom-file (b/pom-path {:lib lib :class-dir class-dir})}))
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deps.edn b/deps.edn
index 6e470c4..80356ad 100644
--- a/deps.edn
+++ b/deps.edn
@@ -49,5 +49,5 @@
          :main-opts ["-m" "clj-kondo.main" "--lint" "src" "--config" ".clj-kondo/config.edn"]}
         
         :cljfmt
-        {:extra-deps {cljfmt/cljfmt {:mvn/version "0.10.5"}}
+        {:extra-deps {dev.weavejester/cljfmt {:mvn/version "0.10.5"}}
          :main-opts ["-m" "cljfmt.main"]}}}
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b5645c..0000000
--- a/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <groupId>raft</groupId>
-  <artifactId>raft</artifactId>
-  <version>0.1.0</version>
-  <name>raft</name>
-  <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
-      <artifactId>clojure</artifactId>
-      <version>1.11.1</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
-      <artifactId>tools.logging</artifactId>
-      <version>1.2.4</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.taoensso</groupId>
-      <artifactId>nippy</artifactId>
-      <version>3.2.0</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
-      <artifactId>core.async</artifactId>
-      <version>1.6.673</version>
-    </dependency>
-  </dependencies>
-  <build>
-    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
-  </build>
-  <repositories>
-    <repository>
-      <id>clojars</id>
-      <url>https://repo.clojars.org/</url>
-    </repository>
-  </repositories>
-</project>
diff --git a/pom.xml.asc b/pom.xml.asc
deleted file mode 100644
index caf3ade..0000000
--- a/pom.xml.asc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
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diff --git a/src/fluree/raft/events.clj b/src/fluree/raft/events.clj
index 8661ffd..4ef0b70 100644
--- a/src/fluree/raft/events.clj
+++ b/src/fluree/raft/events.clj
@@ -62,10 +62,10 @@
           raft-state* (dissoc raft-state :msg-queue)]
       (reduce-kv
        (fn [raft-state* server-id message]
-         (apply send-rpc-fn raft-state* server-id message)
-         (if-let [msgs (get-in raft-state* [:servers server-id :stats :sent])]
-           (assoc-in raft-state* [:servers server-id :stats :sent] (inc msgs))
-           raft-state*))
+         (let [_ (apply send-rpc-fn raft-state* server-id message)]
+           (if-let [msgs (get-in raft-state* [:servers server-id :stats :sent])]
+             (assoc-in raft-state* [:servers server-id :stats :sent] (inc msgs))
+             raft-state*)))
        raft-state* msg-queue))
     raft-state))
 
diff --git a/src/fluree/raft/log.clj b/src/fluree/raft/log.clj
index 0776e90..2dd79f5 100644
--- a/src/fluree/raft/log.clj
+++ b/src/fluree/raft/log.clj
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
 
 (defn move-log
   "Moves the source log file to destination-file."
-  [source-file destination-file]
+  [^File source-file ^File destination-file]
   (Files/move (.toPath source-file) (.toPath destination-file)
               (into-array CopyOption [StandardCopyOption/ATOMIC_MOVE
                                       StandardCopyOption/REPLACE_EXISTING])))