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Cost Optimization

+12

SRE meets FinOps: error budgets for spend

Mar 12, 2026

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8 min read

SRE meets FinOps: error budgets for spend

A simple model for turning cost drift into an operational signal, with a worked example you can adapt in your own cloud environment.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Runbooks

+10

Automation Maturity Ladder

Feb 20, 2026

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7 min read

Automation Maturity Ladder

Scripts → Workflows → Agentic Operations (A Practical Roadmap)

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Runbooks

+9

Runbook-first automation

Feb 19, 2026

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9 min read

Runbook-first automation

Build an incident checklist first, then automate safely (Practical IT How-to)

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Microsoft Azure

+4

If you still manage Azure Policy in the portal, you are running production on hope

Feb 5, 2026

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8 min read

If you still manage Azure Policy in the portal, you are running production on hope

A hot-take workflow for shipping Azure Policy through Azure DevOps without surprise outages, exception chaos, or portal drift.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Microsoft Azure

+5

Azure Policy at scale: DeployIfNotExists patterns that don’t melt ops

Feb 4, 2026

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7 min read

Azure Policy at scale: DeployIfNotExists patterns that don’t melt ops

A PracticalIT how-to for building DeployIfNotExists policies that stay predictable in production.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Microsoft Azure

+8

Before and after: what changes when you move policy to PRs

Feb 3, 2026

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6 min read

Before and after: what changes when you move policy to PRs

A mini case post for platform teams who are tired of click-ops governance

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Engineering Management

+5

Guardrails, not roadblocks: nudge → block → escape

Feb 3, 2026

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8 min read

Guardrails, not roadblocks: nudge → block → escape

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Microsoft Azure

+5

Before and after: what changed when we moved policy to PRs

Feb 2, 2026

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6 min read

Before and after: what changed when we moved policy to PRs

A mini case post for platform teams who are tired of click-ops governance

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

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