Checklist

Basic

Service readiness

• Public API hides internals
• Versioning
  • SemVer in docs
  • Backward compatible changes

Deeply nested items

Release gate

• SLOs defined
  • Availability
    • Target: 99.9%
    • Error budget policy
  • Latency
    • P95 under 200ms
    • Warm caches seeded
• Runbooks
  • Pager escalation
  • Rollback steps

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Local dev checks

• Build passes
• Unit tests green
• Lint clean

Rich content

API review

• Naming follows REST conventions
• Error model
  • Consistent problem+json
  • Documented retryable codes