Director of DevOps. Writing about DevOps, Linux, and the practices that make teams ship reliably.https://taleeb.dev/https://taleeb.dev/blog/link-roundup-2026-09-26/https://taleeb.dev/blog/link-roundup-2026-09-26/This week in tech: rogue AI agents hacked Hugging Face, plan mode is dead, Docker sandbox escape on Mac, and what even is an OS now?Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/understaffed-guardians/https://taleeb.dev/blog/understaffed-guardians/A recent r/devops rant called infrastructure engineering 'the art of telling developers no'. I think the security teams saying no are as underfunded as the developers hitting the wall.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/incident-retrospectives-i-am-often-wrong/https://taleeb.dev/blog/incident-retrospectives-i-am-often-wrong/Leading infra teams taught me that most incident retrospectives fail for human reasons, not process ones. Here is what I got wrong, and what works instead.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/working-with-logstash/https://taleeb.dev/blog/working-with-logstash/Working with Logstash: pipelines, filters, and shipping events into Elasticsearch.Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/working-with-rsyslog/https://taleeb.dev/blog/working-with-rsyslog/Working with rsyslog on Linux: configuration, templates, and forwarding logs to a central server.Wed, 25 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/haproxy-getting-started/https://taleeb.dev/blog/haproxy-getting-started/Build HAProxy from source on Linux: dependencies, compilation, and a first look at load balancing.Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/cd-up-faster-with-backup-command/https://taleeb.dev/blog/cd-up-faster-with-backup-command/A Bash pattern for moving up directories faster and keeping a backup of where you came from.Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/ansible-directory-layout/https://taleeb.dev/blog/ansible-directory-layout/A production-ready Ansible directory layout: roles, group_vars, and the structure that keeps playbooks maintainable.Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/bash-paths-and-file-names-manipulation/https://taleeb.dev/blog/bash-paths-and-file-names-manipulation/Practical Bash one-liners for manipulating file paths and names — handy when processing hundreds of log files.Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/cryptsetup-create-linux-encrypted-volume/https://taleeb.dev/blog/cryptsetup-create-linux-encrypted-volume/Create LUKS/dm-crypt encrypted volumes on Linux with cryptsetup — install, format, and mount.Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/journalctl-examples/https://taleeb.dev/blog/journalctl-examples/Everyday journalctl examples: filtering by unit, time, and priority, plus tips for reading journald logs.Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/clear-content-of-multiple-files-at-once/https://taleeb.dev/blog/clear-content-of-multiple-files-at-once/Truncate the content of many log files at once without deleting them, using a simple Bash loop.Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://taleeb.dev/blog/ossec-log-rotation/https://taleeb.dev/blog/ossec-log-rotation/Configuring log rotation for OSSEC alerts and archives on Linux.Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT