Weekend Deploy Guide Proposes Nine-Check Smoke Test for First-Boot Failures
A developer's build log describes why many weekend deployments fail in the minutes after first deploy rather than in feature code. It highlights three failure classes that only surface post-deploy: configuration drift, cold-start timeouts, and endpoint concurrency problems. The author presents a nine-check smoke test covering environment variables, cold-start budgets, model reachability, and health semantics, with a bash reference script that logs results as NDJSON. Six of the nine checks are automated, while restart persistence and graceful shutdown remain manual by design. The log is a reference implementation rather than a universal drop-in for every hosting provider.
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