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A quiet checklist for Daegu cloud teams
Notes from Yulha-dong · ~7 min
Our studio sits at 210-9, Yulha-dong; Dong-gu; Daegu; Korea. Neighbors run logistics APIs, campus platforms, and quiet SaaS products that wake up when Seoul is already mid-meeting. This checklist grew from their habits.
Before Friday deploys
- Confirm which region’s p95 you will watch first — do not default to the global blend.
- Set soft alerts for the evening, hard alerts only for customer-visible SLIs.
- Name an on-call buddy who is not traveling for Chuseok or a wedding weekend.
Timezone honesty
If your primary customers are domestic, label dashboards in KST without apology. Dual clocks help remote teammates; dual unlabeled axes help nobody. Application analytics should match the calendar people actually live.
Keep the ritual small
Once a month we invite local learners for tea and a single metric review. No slides. Bring a screenshot and a question. That is enough cloud performance monitoring culture for a Tuesday.