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The AI Capacity Storm Is Here

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
Matthew Koozer

AI Engineering

+5

The AI Plan Shift Is Bigger Than Gemini

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
Matthew Koozer

Runbooks

+21

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
Matthew Koozer

Automation

+9

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
Matthew Koozer

AI Engineering

+7

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
Matthew Koozer

Automation

+22

Azure Policy Exemptions at Scale

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
Matthew Koozer

FinOps

+9

Every Azure Policy Exemption Should Come With an Expiry Date

Apr 17, 2026

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4 min read

Every Azure Policy Exemption Should Come With an Expiry Date

How to stop permanent waivers from turning into quiet governance drift

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Amazon AWS

+11

AWS vs. Azure for Multi-Cloud: Beyond Spite Migrations

Apr 13, 2026

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8 min read

AWS vs. Azure for Multi-Cloud: Beyond Spite Migrations

Why adding a second cloud without a second operating model creates governance debt, cost blur, and recovery problems you will own later.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Cost Optimization

+10

If nobody trusts the cost model, your showback is already broken

Mar 26, 2026

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8 min read

If nobody trusts the cost model, your showback is already broken

Three failure modes that quietly kill Azure showback, plus a practical MODEL checklist you can use to make shared cost allocation defensible.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Cost Optimization

+6

Build a usable Azure cost allocation model with exports, tags, and resource groups

Mar 20, 2026

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10 min read

Build a usable Azure cost allocation model with exports, tags, and resource groups

An operator-first guide for Azure teams that need showback or chargeback without turning cost reporting into a science project.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

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

+19

Private Endpoint DNS Checklist (What to Verify, in Order)

Feb 28, 2026

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10 min read

Private Endpoint DNS Checklist (What to Verify, in Order)

Troubleshooting guide for when Private Endpoints "work" in Azure, but nothing can reach them.

Matthew Koozer
Matthew Koozer

Runbooks

+11

Private endpoints fail for one reason: DNS ownership is unclear

Feb 26, 2026

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7 min read

Private endpoints fail for one reason: DNS ownership is unclear

A slightly spicy operator take on why “networking issues” keep showing up in your postmortems.

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

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

+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

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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