diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5fd79872..97b01352 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ jobs:
         - brew cask install xquartz;
         - brew upgrade cmake;
         - brew install rocksdb;
+        - util/build_prep/fetch_boost.sh
         - util/build_prep/macosx/build_qt.sh
       install:
         - brew install ccache;
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ jobs:
         - brew cask install xquartz;
         - brew upgrade cmake;
         - brew install rocksdb;
+        - util/build_prep/fetch_boost.sh
         - util/build_prep/macosx/build_qt.sh
       install:
         - brew install ccache;
@@ -127,7 +129,8 @@ jobs:
         - brew update;
         - brew cask install xquartz;
         - brew upgrade cmake;
-        - brew install rocksdb;
+        - util/build_prep/fetch_rocksdb.sh
+        - util/build_prep/fetch_boost.sh
         - util/build_prep/macosx/build_qt.sh
       install:
         - pip install --user awscli
@@ -169,7 +172,8 @@ jobs:
         - brew update;
         - brew cask install xquartz;
         - brew upgrade cmake;
-        - brew install rocksdb;
+        - util/build_prep/fetch_rocksdb.sh
+        - util/build_prep/fetch_boost.sh
         - util/build_prep/macosx/build_qt.sh
       install:
         - pip install --user awscli
@@ -185,7 +189,6 @@ cache:
     - $HOME/.local
     - $HOME/Library/Caches/Homebrew
     - $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/load-tester/target
-    - /tmp/qt/
 script:
   - if [ -n "$ONE_TIME_TESTS" ]; then ci/check-commit-format.sh; fi
   - if [ -n "$ONE_TIME_TESTS" ]; then doxygen doxygen.config; fi # TODO also deploy the built HTML
diff --git a/ci/build-deploy.sh b/ci/build-deploy.sh
index d6aef013..bf396f65 100755
--- a/ci/build-deploy.sh
+++ b/ci/build-deploy.sh
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ cmake \
     -DNANO_POW_SERVER=ON \
     -DNANO_GUI=ON \
     -DNANO_ROCKSDB=ON \
+    -DROCKSDB_LIBRARIES=/tmp/rocksdb/lib/librocksdb.a \
+    -DROCKSDB_INCLUDE_DIRS=/tmp/rocksdb/include \
     -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${CONFIGURATION} \
     -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON \
-    -DBOOST_ROOT=/usr/local \
+    -DBOOST_ROOT=/tmp/boost/ \
     -DQt5_DIR=${qt_dir} \
     -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
     -DCI_BUILD=true \
diff --git a/ci/build-travis.sh b/ci/build-travis.sh
index 6f9d2c89..d3691ef9 100755
--- a/ci/build-travis.sh
+++ b/ci/build-travis.sh
@@ -41,16 +41,25 @@ fi
 
 ulimit -S -n 8192
 
+if [[ "$OS" == 'Linux' ]]; then
+    ROCKSDB="-DROCKSDB_LIBRARIES=/tmp/rocksdb/lib/librocksdb.a \
+    -DROCKSDB_INCLUDE_DIRS=/tmp/rocksdb/include"
+else
+    ROCKSDB=""
+fi
+
+
 cmake \
     -G'Unix Makefiles' \
     -DACTIVE_NETWORK=nano_test_network \
     -DNANO_TEST=ON \
     -DNANO_GUI=ON \
     -DNANO_ROCKSDB=ON \
+    ${ROCKSDB} \
     -DNANO_WARN_TO_ERR=ON \
     -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
     -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON \
-    -DBOOST_ROOT=/usr/local \
+    -DBOOST_ROOT=/tmp/boost/ \
     -DQt5_DIR=${qt_dir} \
     -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
     ${SANITIZERS} \
diff --git a/docker/ci/Dockerfile-clang b/docker/ci/Dockerfile-clang
index d71857b0..6d1ba365 100644
--- a/docker/ci/Dockerfile-clang
+++ b/docker/ci/Dockerfile-clang
@@ -3,11 +3,8 @@ FROM nanocurrency/nano-env:base
 RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -yqq \
     clang-3.9 lldb-3.9 git
 
-ENV USE_RTTI=1
-RUN git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git && \
-    cd rocksdb && \
-    PORTABLE=1 make static_lib && \
-    make install
+ADD util/build_prep/fetch_rocksdb.sh fetch_rocksdb.sh
+RUN ./fetch_rocksdb.sh
 
 ENV CXX=/usr/bin/clang++
 ENV CC=/usr/bin/clang
@@ -15,9 +12,8 @@ RUN ln -s /usr/bin/clang-3.9 /usr/bin/clang
 RUN ln -s /usr/bin/clang++-3.9 /usr/bin/clang++
 RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/cc cc /usr/bin/clang 100
 RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/c++ c++ /usr/bin/clang++ 100
-ENV BOOST_ROOT=/usr/local
-ADD util/build_prep/bootstrap_boost.sh bootstrap_boost.sh
+ENV BOOST_ROOT=/tmp/boost
 
-RUN ./bootstrap_boost.sh -m -c
+ADD util/build_prep/fetch_boost.sh fetch_boost.sh
 
-RUN rm bootstrap_boost.sh
+RUN ./fetch_boost.sh
diff --git a/docker/ci/Dockerfile-gcc b/docker/ci/Dockerfile-gcc
index 32fc763d..9378cf3e 100644
--- a/docker/ci/Dockerfile-gcc
+++ b/docker/ci/Dockerfile-gcc
@@ -2,13 +2,11 @@ FROM nanocurrency/nano-env:base
 
 RUN apt-get install -yqq git
 
-ENV USE_RTTI=1
-RUN git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git && \
-    cd rocksdb && \
-    PORTABLE=1 make static_lib && \
-    make install
+ADD util/build_prep/fetch_rocksdb.sh fetch_rocksdb.sh
+RUN ./fetch_rocksdb.sh
 
-ENV BOOST_ROOT=/usr/local
-ADD util/build_prep/bootstrap_boost.sh bootstrap_boost.sh
-RUN ./bootstrap_boost.sh -m
-RUN rm bootstrap_boost.sh
+ENV BOOST_ROOT=/tmp/boost
+
+ADD util/build_prep/fetch_boost.sh fetch_boost.sh
+
+RUN TRAVIS_COMPILER=gcc ./fetch_boost.sh
diff --git a/util/build_prep/fetch_boost.sh b/util/build_prep/fetch_boost.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..0f1a88b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/build_prep/fetch_boost.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+OS=`uname`
+
+TRAVIS_COMPILER="${TRAVIS_COMPILER:-clang}"
+
+pushd /tmp
+wget -O boost-$OS-$TRAVIS_COMPILER-latest.tgz https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/repo.nano.org/artifacts/boost-$OS-$TRAVIS_COMPILER-latest.tgz
+tar -zxf boost-$OS-$TRAVIS_COMPILER-latest.tgz
+mv tmp/* .
+rm -fr tmp
+popd
diff --git a/util/build_prep/fetch_rocksdb.sh b/util/build_prep/fetch_rocksdb.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..61d14d43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/build_prep/fetch_rocksdb.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+OS=`uname`
+
+if [[ $OS =~ "Darwin" ]]; then
+	artifact="rocksdb-clang-latest.tgz"
+else
+	artifact="rocksdb-gcc-latest.tgz"
+fi
+
+pushd /tmp
+wget -O $artifact https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/repo.nano.org/artifacts/$artifact
+tar -zxf $artifact
+mv tmp/* .
+rm -fr tmp
+popd
diff --git a/util/build_prep/macosx/build_qt.sh b/util/build_prep/macosx/build_qt.sh
index 6af76aad..4dde70b7 100755
--- a/util/build_prep/macosx/build_qt.sh
+++ b/util/build_prep/macosx/build_qt.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-if [[ ! -d "/tmp/qt/lib/cmake" ]]; then
-	pushd /tmp
-	wget -O qtbase-latest.tgz https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/$AWS_BUCKET/artifacts/qtbase-latest.tgz
-	tar -zxf qtbase-latest.tgz
-	mv tmp/* .
-	rm -fr tmp
-	popd
-fi
+pushd /tmp
+wget -O qtbase-clang-latest.tgz https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/repo.nano.org/artifacts/qtbase-clang-latest.tgz
+tar -zxf qtbase-clang-latest.tgz
+mv tmp/* .
+rm -fr tmp
+popd