The Verdict — Vladimir Mikhalev

Technology Podcasts

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

AI Agent Governance — One Engineer, Over a Hundred Repositories and the Decisions No Agent Makes

Restore Drills on a Clean Machine — Measured RTO for 47 Stacks, 19 Seconds to 7 Minutes

Mutation Testing for Infrastructure Code — 153 Planted Bugs, Four Tests That Could Not Fail

Docker Health Checks That Cannot Fail — Seventeen Hours Green

watsonx.governance Enforcement Tracking — Sampled Compliance and the Unevidenced Run

Merge Debt: The 2026 Bill Your Parallel AI Agents Are Running Up

Terraform MCP server GA: the Apply Gate your auditor will ask about

Your Knowledge Is a Depreciating Asset. Judgment Compounds.

The Senior Engineer Signal: The 2026 Risk Your Velocity Metrics Hide

Agent Sprawl: The 2026 Engineering Risk Your Auditor Hasn't Named Yet

Cloudflare Web Analytics on Astro — Why Removing GA4 Unlocked Lighthouse 100

The Intake Gate Your CISO Is Missing — 300 Million AI Chat Messages Were Public by Default

I Tested an AI Agent on My Live Systems. Here Is the Blast Radius Assessment Every Engineer Is Skipping.

Infosys Deploys Devin AI Globally — And Your DevOps Career Just Became Legacy Labor

The End of the Executor — Why Computer Vision Engineers Are Becoming Optional

AI Didn't Fix Productivity. Measurement Did.

Platform Engineering — The Complete, Practical Guide to Building Internal Developer Platforms That Scale

Docker MCP — Turn GPT into a Real DevOps Assistant (Slack, GitHub, Stripe)

GitOps on AWS — Real-World DevOps Pipeline with Argo CD, Terraform & EKS

Why AI Fails Without DevOps — What No One Tells You