Vladimir Mikhalev
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Vladimir Mikhalev
@heyvaldemar.com
Website: https://www.heyvaldemar.com/
DevOps Community: https://devops.army

⛅ AWS Community Builder
🐳 Docker Captain
🏆 Ambassador of:
🔮 HashiCorp | 🐺 Snyk | 📝 Notion | 🐙 GitKraken | 🧪 Cypress
💼 Ex-Amazon / Ex-IBM
Pinned
Tools I Personally Trust:

🛸 Proton VPN (60% off) - go.getproton.me/SH1e9
My shield on the internet.

🔑 Proton Pass (50% off) - go.getproton.me/SH1dl
My password vault.

🦑 GitKraken Pro (50% off) - gitkraken.cello.so/3G7ijV8vGOC
My visual Git sidekick.

💜 Discount for you, support for me - win-win!
@devops.pink left a toxic relationship - and found real love 😄🦑
I left a toxic relationship.
Yes… the terminal 😅

Now I’m with @gitkraken.com 💖
Clear history, calm conflicts, real Undo - and it’s actually beautiful.

New video is live
youtu.be/BGGX3UW4jMM

Terminal or something better? 🐙✨

#GitKraken #DevOps #Git #TechHumor
GitKraken vs Git CLI: Best Git GUI for DevOps in 2026
YouTube video by DevOps Pink | by Docker Captain
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Future millionaires are already shopping for a private island.

#RAM #PCBuild #TechPrices #HardwareMarket #Inflation #TechHumor #FutureMillionaires
December 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Neural rendering is insane.

NVIDIA basically said: "what if shaders had tiny brains?" and dropped RTX Kit - SDK where the engine sends geometry + lighting, and AI paints the frame in real time.

Art style = model swap, not engine rewrite.

👇 Link in comments.

#AI #gamedev
December 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
AI isn’t replacing developers - bad workflows are.

In the Builders Era, speed means nothing without control.

Here’s how to stay in charge: expert supervision, clean Git workflows, and @gitkraken.com as your visibility engine.

www.heyvaldemar.com/builders-era...

#GitKraken #AI #DevOps #Git
Inside the Builders Era — How Developers Stay in Control of AI with GitKraken as the Core Tool | DevOps Compass
How developers stay in control of AI in the Builders Era — using expert supervision, clean Git workflows, and GitKraken to keep speed, quality, and reliability.
www.heyvaldemar.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
OpenAGI just dropped Lux - an AI agent that actually drives your computer.

83.6% on Online-Mind2Web vs 69% Gemini CUA & 61.3% Operator, ~1s per step and ~10× cheaper.

Works in desktop apps, not just the browser.

👇 Link in comments.

#AI #Agents #LLM #Automation
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Found a neat building block for AI agents: yt-dlp-mcp ⚡

It lets your agents search YouTube, download video/audio, pull metadata, subtitles and transcripts - all via MCP.

Perfect for LLM pipelines, RAG, and content automation.

Link in the comments 👇

#AI #Agents #DevOps #MCP
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
As a @docker.com Captain, I see what's coming.

AI isn't replacing containers.
AI is replacing the people who configure them.

The question isn't IF. It's WHEN.

What's your move?

#DevOps #AI #Docker
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
No magic - just engineering. 🛠️

Platform Engineering: how to build an Internal Developer Platform that doesn’t collapse on Friday night.

Guide here 👉 www.heyvaldemar.com/platform-eng...

#PlatformEngineering #DevOps #SRE
Platform Engineering — The Complete, Practical Guide to Building Internal Developer Platforms That Scale | DevOps Compass
A deep, practical guide to Platform Engineering. Learn how to build internal developer platforms, golden paths, GitOps workflows, and scalable cloud foundations.
www.heyvaldemar.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Our new Data Integrity Officer!
My new video is out! 💖

Backend + DevOps are the new cloud-native core, AI is playing catch-up, and Kubernetes… is no longer the star 🫣✨

Come see the real numbers, not the hype 🙃

youtu.be/tBK5rA8xvTc

#DevOps #CloudNative #CNCF #Kubernetes #Backend #SRE #Observability
Kubernetes Is No Longer #1 — The REAL 2025 Cloud Native Report (CNCF x SlashData)
YouTube video by DevOps Pink | by Docker Captain
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Found an underrated gem: Docker Wake Up ⚡

Hit a URL → container spins up.
No traffic → it goes to sleep. Zero waste.

Auto NGINX, SSL, reverse proxy, one JSON.
Works with systemd + @docker.com compose.

Link in comments 👇

#Docker #DevOps #Homelab #Automation
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you care about privacy, bookmark this.

A curated list of 100+ open-source, privacy-first alternatives to Google, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Drive & more - from AI tools and file managers to cloud storage and even keyboards.

Link in the comments 👇

#DevOps #AI #LLM #Privacy
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
An AI-designed part that straight-up looks alien 🛸

Noyron spat out a 1.5m hypersonic precooler - zero humans touching CAD.

Built for Mach 5+ thermal chaos, printed on a monster metal 3D printer, already flying in rocket engines.

AI in aerospace is going feral.

#AI #Aerospace
November 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The russian regime showcases a "robot" that collapses on stage.

And it’s the perfect metaphor for a state that’s been waging a full-scale war against Ukraine for four years - killing children and destroying cities.

#StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #Robotics #Tech
November 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
China now has a new robot maker - UBTECH Robotics.

They announced "we’ll build humanoids" a month ago… and suddenly rolled out a whole army.

Best part? They swap their own batteries to work 24/7.
(Just like you, huh 😅)

#AI #Robotics #Tech
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Meet rip2 - the rm we deserved all along 😅

Deletes your files… but not really.

Everything goes into a "graveyard," so you can restore whatever you nuked by accident.

Rust-built, safer, cleaner, faster.

Link in the comments 👇

#Rust #CLI #DevOps #Tools
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Found a wild tool - Everywhere.

It’s basically a Jarvis that lives right on your screen: understands context, reads files, summarizes pages, helps with code, even plans trips.

Runs local, supports GPT/Claude/Gemini/DeepSeek.

Link in the comments 👇

#AI #LLM #Agents #Tools
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Cronboard - the therapy we all needed after breaking crontabs in prod 😅

Add, edit, and track your cron jobs from a clean UI - local or remote.

No more crontab -e nightmares.

Link in the comments 👇

#DevOps #Automation #Cron #Tools
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Stumbled on a really handy tool - Lazyjournal.

It lets you view logs from journald, Docker, or Kubernetes - all in one terminal.

Color output, filters, archived logs, even remote access - no client needed.

Link in the comments 👇

#DevOps #Kubernetes #Docker #CLI #Logs
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Vladimir Mikhalev
My new video just dropped! 🔥

Amazon Q - the AI assistant inside AWS that finally speaks cloud like we do. 🙃

No buzzwords - just me breaking down what it is, how it works, and why it actually matters for DevOps. ⚡️

🎥 Watch now → youtu.be/4Ke8eQWKfzs

#AWS #AmazonQ #DevOps #AI #Cloud
Amazon Q — The AI DevOps Tool That Fixes AWS Headaches (IAM, Lambda, YAML, VPC)
YouTube video by DevOps Pink | by Docker Captain
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
XPeng showed off a humanoid robot called Iron - seven years in the making.

Looks surprisingly natural in movement and design.

Mass production planned for 2026.
China’s robotics scene is getting wild.

#AI #Robotics #Tech
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Pretty cool find - Conar, an AI that writes and optimizes SQL for you.

Just ask in plain English like "Which users were active this month?"

#AI #DevOps #Databases #LLM
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
You can actually run Firefox inside @docker.com - no local install needed.

Just spin up the container, open it in your browser or via VNC, and boom - full desktop Firefox.

Audio, dark mode, configs - all supported.

#Docker #DevOps #Containers #Tools
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is pure nightmare fuel 😬

An engineer hacked a Unitree robot and turned it into a crawling horror straight out of The Ring. 👗💀

Yes, it’s wearing Samara’s dress.
Yes, it moves.
No, you won’t sleep tonight.

#Robotics #AI #Unitree #Tech #Innovation #Horror
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ever wanted your AI to run code for real - but inside @docker.com, not on your laptop? 🐳

Meet Code Sandbox MCP Server - a lightweight setup that spins up a Docker container, runs your snippet (Python 🐍 or JS ⚡️), captures logs, and sends results back.

#Docker #AI #LLM #DevOps
November 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM