diff --git a/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-base.pp b/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-base.pp
index 1531ca25b9..9f68fb1763 100644
--- a/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-base.pp
+++ b/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-base.pp
@@ -91,8 +91,9 @@
     }
 
     exec {
-        '/usr/bin/apt-get update':
-            alias => 'apt-get-update';
+        '/usr/bin/apt-get update && touch /tmp/apt-get-update':
+            alias => 'apt-get-update',
+            creates => '/tmp/apt-get-update';
     }
 
     exec {
@@ -205,7 +206,8 @@
             timeout => '3600',
             require => Exec['socorro-install'],
             logoutput => on_failure,
-            notify => [Service['supervisor'], Service['apache2']],
+            notify => [Service['supervisor'], Service['apache2'],
+                       Service['memcached']],
             user => 'socorro';
     }
 }
diff --git a/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-db.pp b/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-db.pp
index c2fad6b16f..9208027931 100644
--- a/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-db.pp
+++ b/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-db.pp
@@ -38,8 +38,9 @@
 
     exec {
        'update-postgres-ppa':
-            command => '/usr/bin/apt-get update',
-            require => Exec['add-postgres-ppa'];
+            command => '/usr/bin/apt-get update && touch /tmp/update-postgres-ppa',
+            require => Exec['add-postgres-ppa'],
+            creates => '/tmp/update-postgres-ppa';
     }
 
     exec {
diff --git a/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-hbase.pp b/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-hbase.pp
index 3a6634bc08..9f3b129359 100644
--- a/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-hbase.pp
+++ b/puppet/manifests/classes/socorro-hbase.pp
@@ -11,14 +11,17 @@
     exec { '/usr/bin/apt-get install -y hadoop-hbase hadoop-hbase-master hadoop-hbase-thrift liblzo2-dev':
             alias => 'install-hbase',
             logoutput => on_failure,
+            refreshonly => true,
+            subscribe => Exec['apt-get-update-cloudera'],
             require => [Exec['apt-get-update'],Exec['apt-get-update-cloudera']];
     }
 
     exec { 
         'apt-get-update-cloudera':
-            command => '/usr/bin/apt-get update',
+            command => '/usr/bin/apt-get update && touch /tmp/apt-get-update-cloudera',
             require => [Exec['install-oracle-jdk'],
-                        File['/etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudera.list']];
+                        File['/etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudera.list']],
+            creates => '/tmp/apt-get-update-cloudera';
     }
 
     exec {
@@ -32,7 +35,7 @@
     exec {
         '/bin/cat /home/socorro/dev/socorro/analysis/hbase_schema | sed \'s/LZO/NONE/g\' | /usr/bin/hbase shell':
             alias => 'hbase-schema',
-            unless => '/bin/echo "describe \'crash_reports\'" | /usr/bin/hbase shell  | grep "1 row"',
+            creates => "/var/lib/hbase/crash_reports",
             logoutput => on_failure,
             require => Exec['install-hbase'];
     }