The Verdict

Inconvenient truths about shipping in the AI era

Container security, platform engineering, and the agentic shift — tested in production, argued without the hype. The verdict reaches your inbox the moment there's one worth sending.

Recent verdicts

AI Agent Governance — One Engineer, Over a Hundred Repositories and the Decisions No Agent Makes Oct 19
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AI Reviews That Read Nothing — Thirty-Four Verdicts in a Hundred Oct 6

Written by Vladimir Mikhalev — Senior DevOps Engineer and Docker Captain, one of fewer than 250 worldwide.