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Vladimir Mikhalev
I test what ships and publish what I find, failures included: 100+ public repositories, every restore script run by CI, every finding on the ledger with its rule.
One of fewer than 250 Docker Captains worldwide, a CNCF Ambassador, and Technical Editor of "Docker and Kubernetes Security."
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Verdicts
The latest from the blog
A finding, the run behind it, and what to do on Monday.
- Docker Hardened Images Migration: A Healthy Database That Kept NothingNov 12, 2026
- EKS Validation on a Real AWS Account: Seven Failures No Mock SawNov 10, 2026
- A Partial Read Is Not a Smaller Fleet: A GitHub API Rate Limit and the Numbers That Lied for an HourNov 5, 2026
Evidence
Every claim with its run
What the green checks hid, and the public runs that show it.
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The code behind the claims
Read it, run it, open an issue when something breaks.
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