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Checklists and templates you can use without hiring us

Practical artifacts for cloud, DevOps and AI work. They are deliberately opinionated enough to be useful and explicit about where a checklist cannot replace measurement or engineering judgment.

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Start with the problem in front of you

Use the checklists for a structured review and the templates when the missing artifact is part of the operational problem.

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Cloud Cost Review Checklist

A practical checklist for separating cloud waste from architectural cost before committing to rightsizing or discounts.

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DevOps Delivery Health Checklist

A review checklist for the path from commit to production, including feedback speed, environment consistency, rollback and ownership.

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AI Production Readiness Checklist

A production-readiness checklist for RAG systems, assistants and AI workflows covering evaluation, retrieval, permissions, failure handling and cost.

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Architecture Decision Record Template

A compact ADR template for recording context, constraints, options, a decision and the conditions that would cause the team to revisit it.

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Production Runbook Template

A runbook structure for incidents and recurring operational tasks that gives the next engineer enough context to act without guessing.

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How to use these

A checklist should create questions, not false certainty

A checked box does not prove a control works. Use these resources to find gaps, then verify the important ones with configuration, logs, tests and real system behavior.

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