Practical IT

Practical playbooks for Azure architecture, automation, and cost control built by a practitioner.

AI Engineering

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May 29, 2026

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6 min read

The AI Capacity Storm Is Here

Microsoft AI Foundry, GPT-image-2, and the quota squeeze

Matthew Koozer

AI Engineering

May 29, 2026

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6 min read

The AI Plan Shift Is Bigger Than Gemini

Google AI Pro, compute-based limits, and the new reality of AI usage runway

Matthew Koozer

Runbooks

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Azure Key Vault Access Troubleshooting Without Guesswork

May 21, 2026

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7 min read

Azure Key Vault Access Troubleshooting Without Guesswork

A Practical IT scorecard for validating RBAC, private endpoints, DNS, and firewall controls before the incident gets weird.

Matthew Koozer

Automation

Secrets Sprawl Cleanup Checklist & Worksheet

May 13, 2026

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2 min read

Secrets Sprawl Cleanup Checklist & Worksheet

A practical asset pack for finding, owning, rotating, and retiring unmanaged cloud credentials.

Matthew Koozer

AI Engineering

The Next Engineering Negotiation: Token Budgets

May 5, 2026

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5 min read

The Next Engineering Negotiation: Token Budgets

GitHub Copilot billing is moving toward usage-based AI Credits. The bigger shift is that engineering capacity is starting to depend on credits, context, model access, and agent runtime.

Matthew Koozer

Automation

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Apr 28, 2026

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9 min read

Azure Policy Exemptions at Scale

Naming, expiration, and audit trail patterns for operators who need exceptions without creating permanent blind spots

Matthew Koozer