The Verdict — Vladimir Mikhalev
Container security, AI governance, and platform engineering, tested in production and argued without the hype. Every episode is a full essay from heyvaldemar.com, written by Docker Captain Vladimir Mikhalev and narrated by an AI clone of his voice.
Episodes
October 18, 2026 • 13 mins
AI agent governance for one engineer and 100+ repositories. What the agents decide, what they never do, and the documented auto-merge that merges red checks. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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October 12, 2026 • 15 mins
Restore drills that measure RTO on a machine that never ran the stack, 47 templates weekly. Every same-host restore passed. The first clean one answered 500. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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October 5, 2026 • 25 mins
A third of the images my fleet pins would have had their next AI review written against nothing. How to prove what an AI review read before anyone acts on it. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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September 26, 2026 • 19 mins
Mutation testing for infrastructure code, done by hand across fifteen repositories. 153 planted bugs, and four green tests that could never have failed. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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September 14, 2026 • 14 mins
A Docker health check whose pattern matches the shell running it can never go red. How to find the checks in your fleet that never failed, and prove each one. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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August 23, 2026 • 15 mins
EU AI Act Article 12 wants a per-event record. Enforcement Tracking evidences thresholds on a schedule. What that gap costs, and the join key that closes it. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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July 29, 2026 • 11 mins
Three agents finish in parallel. Main takes one landing at a time. METR's perception gap, the rebase tax, and why Merge Debt is the number nobody plots. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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June 29, 2026 • 10 mins
HashiCorp's Terraform MCP server is GA and IBM Bob can write production IaC. ENABLE_TF_OPERATIONS separates a safe assistant from autonomous apply. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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June 15, 2026 • 13 mins
AI made reproducible knowledge free, so technical expertise is now a depreciating asset. Judgment is the one that compounds. Here is how to move your weight. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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June 11, 2026 • 10 mins
Juniors get the biggest boost from AI; seniors trust it least. That split is your earliest read on engineering risk, and on the talent you're about to lose. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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June 10, 2026 • 14 mins
Unknown numbers of AI coding agents run in parallel — no audit trail, no isolation, no per-team measurement. By 2026 that's an audit finding. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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April 21, 2026 • 15 mins
How I hardened a 1M-pull public Docker image from Scout grade D to OpenSSF Scorecard 7.8 — multi-stage build, cosign, SLSA provenance, non-root default. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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April 17, 2026 • 9 mins
How removing Google Analytics 4 from an Astro site unlocked Lighthouse 100, why Cloudflare Web Analytics replaced it, and what the tradeoffs actually cost. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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March 14, 2026 • 13 mins
Half of AI-enabled apps on major backends carry severe misconfigurations. Inside the 300M-message Firebase breach and a 3-layer protocol to stop Agent Sprawl. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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February 21, 2026 • 8 mins
Everyone's installing AI agents on Mac Minis. I tested one in isolation — the architectural framework for deployment the hype leaves out. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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Amazon laid off Jason Dunn, architect of the AWS Community Builders program. The signal: community must prove production value, not engagement metrics. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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February 3, 2026 • 6 mins
Infosys deployed Devin AI globally. If you compete on technical execution as a DevOps engineer, you're now Legacy Labor — the blueprint to survive. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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January 26, 2026 • 4 mins
Anisoptera's Dragonfly platform proved specialized CV engineers are replaceable. The math ($150k vs $5k) and the blueprint to survive the shift. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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December 11, 2025 • 5 mins
AI adoption is easy. Proving productivity isn't. A Docker Captain's view on why AI impact is hard to measure—and how teams can finally prove real value. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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November 26, 2025 • 16 mins
A practical guide to Platform Engineering — build internal developer platforms, golden paths, GitOps workflows, and scalable cloud foundations. Narrated by an AI clone of the author's voice.
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