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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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Episodes 16
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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.
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The Senior Engineer Signal: The 2026 Risk Your Velocity Metrics HideJuniors 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.
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Agent Sprawl: The 2026 Engineering Risk Your Auditor Hasn't Named YetUnknown numbers of AI coding agents run in parallel — no audit trail, no isolation, no per-team measurement. By 2026 that's an audit finding.
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Docker supply chain hardening — from Scout D to OpenSSF 7.8 on a 730K-pull imageHow 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.
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Cloudflare Web Analytics on Astro — Why Removing GA4 Unlocked Lighthouse 100How removing Google Analytics 4 from an Astro site unlocked Lighthouse 100, why Cloudflare Web Analytics replaced it, and what the tradeoffs actually cost.
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The Intake Gate Your CISO Is Missing — 300 Million AI Chat Messages Were Public by DefaultOver 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.
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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.
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Amazon Project Dawn Cut 30,000 Jobs — Including the Head of AWS Community Builders. Here's What It Means.Amazon laid off Jason Dunn, the architect of the AWS Community Builders program. This isn't the death of community — it's the signal that community must prove production value, not just engagement metrics.
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Infosys Deploys Devin AI Globally — And Your DevOps Career Just Became Legacy LaborInfosys just deployed Devin AI globally. If you are a DevOps engineer competing on technical execution, you are now "Legacy Labor". Here is the blueprint to survive.
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The End of the Executor — Why Computer Vision Engineers Are Becoming OptionalAnisoptera's "Dragonfly" platform just proved that specialized CV engineers are no longer irreplaceable. Here is the math ($150k vs $5k) and the architectural blueprint to survive the shift.
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AI Didn't Fix Productivity. Measurement Did.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.
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Platform Engineering — The Complete, Practical Guide to Building Internal Developer Platforms That ScaleA deep, practical guide to Platform Engineering. Learn how to build internal developer platforms, golden paths, GitOps workflows, and scalable cloud foundations.
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Docker MCP — Turn GPT into a Real DevOps Assistant (Slack, GitHub, Stripe)Learn how to turn GPT into a real DevOps assistant using Docker MCP. Discover how AI agents can automate Slack, GitHub, Stripe, and more — securely and at scale.
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GitOps on AWS — Real-World DevOps Pipeline with Argo CD, Terraform & EKSLearn how to build a production-grade GitOps pipeline on AWS using EKS, Argo CD, Terraform, Vault, and GitHub Actions. Real-world architecture. No buzzwords — just systems that scale.
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Why AI Fails Without DevOps — What No One Tells YouWithout DevOps, AI fails fast. Learn how containers, CI/CD, and GitOps keep LLMs and ML systems like OpenAI and Hugging Face running at scale.
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The AI Era — From Technology to Global DominationExploring a future where AI controls all aspects of life, redefining global governance and social interactions.
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