The Verdict — Vladimir Mikhalev

Vladimir Mikhalev
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Container security, AI governance, and platform engineering, tested in production and argued without the hype. Every episode is a full essay from heyvaldemar.com, narrated by Docker Captain Vladimir Mikhalev in his own voice.

  1. Jun 30

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

    HashiCorp's Terraform MCP server is GA and IBM Bob can write production IaC. ENABLE_TF_OPERATIONS separates a safe assistant from autonomous apply.

    10 min

  2. Jun 16

    Your Knowledge Is a Depreciating Asset. Judgment Compounds.

    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.

    14 min

  3. Jun 12

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

    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.

    11 min

  4. Jun 11

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

    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.

    14 min

  5. Apr 22

    Docker supply chain hardening — from Scout D to OpenSSF 7.8 on a 730K-pull image

    How I hardened a 730K-pull public Docker image from Scout grade D to OpenSSF Scorecard 7.8. Multi-stage build, cosign signing, SLSA provenance, non-root default, and the incident that changed how I ship attestations.

    14 min

  6. Apr 18

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

    How removing Google Analytics 4 from an Astro site unlocked Lighthouse 100, why Cloudflare Web Analytics replaced it, and what the tradeoffs actually cost.

    9 min

  7. Mar 15

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

    Over half of AI-enabled apps on major backends carry severe misconfigurations. A hands-on analysis of the 300M-message Firebase breach, the insecure default that caused it, and the 3-layer Operational Discipline Protocol — with specific tooling — to shut down Agent Sprawl before regulators do it for you.

    14 min

  8. Feb 22

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

    Everyone is buying Mac Minis and installing AI agents. I tested one in isolation. Here is the architectural framework for deployment that the Instagram hype does not include.

    8 min
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Container security, AI governance, and platform engineering, tested in production and argued without the hype. Every episode is a full essay from heyvaldemar.com, narrated by Docker Captain Vladimir Mikhalev in his own voice.

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