Portfolio of Parag Gupta, a DevOps Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer building resilient infrastructure and automation — from Kubernetes clusters to AI-augmented observability tooling.https://paraggupta10.github.io/en-ushttps://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/rolling-out-zero-code-distributed-tracing/https://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/rolling-out-zero-code-distributed-tracing/Onboarding a Java microservices platform onto distributed tracing without asking any team to touch their code, and without disturbing the logging and metrics pipelines already running in production.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTobservabilityopentelemetrykubernetestracinghttps://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/filing-my-first-patent-application/https://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/filing-my-first-patent-application/The invention itself is still confidential while the application is pending, so this isn't a technical write-up. It's what I learned going through prior-art research and defending the idea to a patent attorney for the first time.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTpatentaiopsobservabilitycareerhttps://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/cloud-cost-optimization-three-initiatives/https://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/cloud-cost-optimization-three-initiatives/Reserved-capacity planning for DynamoDB, traffic-aware rightsizing for Aerospike, and a unified multi-cloud cost dashboard -- three different approaches to the same underlying problem: spend that had drifted away from actual usage.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcost-optimizationawsdynamodbaerospikefinopshttps://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/one-chat-interface-instead-of-five-tools/https://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/one-chat-interface-instead-of-five-tools/Investigating an issue across metrics, logs, and a database usually means several open tools and a manual correlation step. Lens replaces that with one natural-language chat interface — here's the architecture behind it.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTaimulti-agentobservabilitypythonhttps://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/terraform-mongodb-atlas-indexes/https://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/terraform-mongodb-atlas-indexes/Why I published terraform-mongodbatlas-indexes: declarative, YAML-driven MongoDB Atlas index management, backed by unit tests, a live-database integration test, and CI on every push.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTterraformmongodbinfrastructure-as-codecihttps://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/finding-the-process-behind-a-noisy-vm/https://paraggupta10.github.io/blog/finding-the-process-behind-a-noisy-vm/Cortex VM Analyzer compares a suspect host's VM- and process-level metrics against a healthy peer, and uses AI-based analysis to name the specific process behind a resource bottleneck or memory leak -- before anyone opens application logs.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTobservabilityaipythonstreamlit