Gary Rafferty

I create and lead passionate and progressive engineering departments that add value to business. Deeply motivated in identifying and growing the engineering leaders of the future.

EC2’s new vCPU-based on-demand limits

1 minute read

In an effort to simplify the ec2 limit management experience, AWS recently announced that it was moving on-demand EC2 instance limits away from the existing ...

Six destructive myths about technical hiring

4 minute read

Following a recent discussion with a friend about hiring engineers, I recommended that they read Building Great Software Engineering Teams by Josh Tyler. The...

Instance size flexibility for EC2 Reserved Instances

1 minute read

Reserved EC2 instances (RIs) can be used to reserve instance compute capacity for a fixed term, in exchange for a sizeable discount.

CloudFormation and StackMaster (part 2)

2 minute read

In part one of the series, we looked at using CloudFormation to codify your AWS infrastructure. I concluded with mentioning some painpoints that you might en...

CloudFormation and StackMaster (part 1)

5 minute read

As part of some recent infrastructure upgrades, I’ve been spending quite some time in the land of CloudFormation. If you’re unfamiliar with CloudFormation, i...