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Level Up Coding

How to Intelligently Troubleshoot and Always find The Hidden Gremlins

In my time in the tech field, I have learned that troubleshooting is an art form and skill. It doesn’t matter what position you hold, you…

4 min readApr 14, 2021

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How to Intelligently Troubleshoot and Always find The Hidden Gremlins

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Ken De La Guera
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Level Up Coding

Terraform: Staying DRY + Feature Toggling

All code has a life cycle. Good code today, might be bad code tomorrow. It’s not that bad decisions were made when the code was initially…

5 min readApr 11, 2021

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Terraform: Staying DRY + Feature Toggling

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Towards Data Science

Everything You Need to Know To Automate OSX

When we think about automating workloads, repeatable processes, “one-click” deployments, or something along those lines, the last thing we…

5 min readJan 28, 2021

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Everything You Need to Know To Automate OSX

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Ken De La Guera
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Level Up Coding

How To Modernize your Old School SFTP Server

Not even 15 years ago, when someone talked about a server, they meant a piece of hardware in a datacenter. “Dedicated Hosting” and…

8 min readNov 12, 2020

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How To Modernize your Old School SFTP Server

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Ken De La Guera
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Level Up Coding

How to Build Tailored AMIs To Level Up your Infrastructure

There comes a time in everyone’s infrastructure journey that you have to build your own AWS AMIs. Instead of having to configure your…

14 min readSep 27, 2020

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How to Build Tailored AMIs To Level Up your Infrastructure

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Dev Genius

ZSH: How to Create Dynamic Aliases

Is it often said that “Devops” is not job, it is a culture and shift in mentality. One of the primary tenants of Devops is “automate…

4 min readSep 9, 2020

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ZSH: How to Create Dynamic Aliases

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Dev Genius

How to Sell Change To Your Company

If someone reached out to you and said: “If you give me $1000, in a year I’ll turn it into $10000”, you would be understandably skeptical…

6 min readAug 5, 2020

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How to Sell Change To Your Company

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Towards Data Science

Why you should have the discussions even if you’re right

We engineers can be an interesting lot. Due to the nature of our jobs, we are wired to think a certain way. Engineers are essentially told…

3 min readJul 26, 2020

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Why you should have the discussions even if you’re right

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Ken De La Guera
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Dev Genius

How to Think Like an Engineer

In my time in the tech field, I have learned that it really doesn’t matter what tools or languages you know. During your tenure in the…

8 min readJul 14, 2020

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How to Think Like an Engineer

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Ken De La Guera
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Dev Genius

Terraform: Staying DRY when using count conditionals

Everyone in the tech field has heard the term “Stay DRY” or some variation of it. When writing code, staying DRY means: “Don’t repeat…

4 min readJul 4, 2020

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Terraform: Staying DRY when using count conditionals

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Ken De La Guera

Ken De La Guera

Devops Manager + Entrepreneur with over 13 years in the field. I love to learn and help others learn so we can all grow together.

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