My home office setup

Moving Back to Bangalore – A New Chapter After 4 Years of WFH

After more than four years of working from home , it’s finally time for a big change. This November, we’ll be relocating to Bangalore as part of the return-to-office transition. It feels a bit surreal when I think about it — I joined Sage during the fully remote days and have hardly been to the office. In fact, I’ve only visited twice — once for the AWS hackathon and another time to meet the leadership team . The rest of my journey so far has been from my little home setup. ...

October 17, 2025 · 2 min · Vignesh Ragupathy

Stop Handing Out Tools Start Growing Engineers

Stop Handing Out Tools. Start Growing Engineers I’ve seen this happen too many times. A new project kicks off, and the team hears: “Here’s the tool. Here’s the plan. Just deploy.” It feels efficient. But it skips the most important step: exploration. When engineers are told what to use, they don’t learn why . They never see how others solve the same problem. They miss the chance to break, test, and truly understand. And over time, they stay stuck—good executors, but not real decision-makers. ...

September 13, 2025 · 2 min · Vignesh Ragupathy
Family in Car

The Long Road of Parenthood

The Long Road of Parenthood They say it’s about the journey, not the destination. As a dad of two boys, I learn that lesson every day. Parenting is a marathon, not a sprint. The rewards aren’t immediate—you don’t get a salary or a promotion for making it through a tantrum or helping with homework. The real reward isn’t what we get; it’s what we become. Our family road trips are the perfect example. We spend way more time driving than we do at whatever destination we’re heading to. But those car rides are where the magic happens. ...

September 8, 2025 · 2 min · Vignesh Ragupathy
Building AI for Observability with AWS Bedrock

Building AI for Observability with AWS Bedrock

Building AI for Observability with AWS Bedrock In my previous post, I wrote about closing the last mile of observability with AI . The core idea was simple: we already have plenty of metrics, logs, and traces, but the real challenge is turning them into insights and answers that engineers can act on. In that post, I highlighted two main gaps: Connector layer – bridging multiple observability tools like Prometheus, Thanos, Elastic, etc. Insight layer – going beyond raw queries to provide real context and recommendations. Now, I’ve been experimenting with AWS Bedrock , and it feels like a natural way to solve both layers. ...

September 4, 2025 · 2 min · Vignesh Ragupathy

Closing the Last Mile of Observability with AI

Over the years, observability has grown in ways I couldn’t have imagined when I first started working in this space. Thanks to OpenTelemetry, we now have a standard way to collect traces, metrics, and logs. Tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger and Elasticsearch make it easy to store and visualize that data. But here’s the truth I keep coming back to: Even with all the dashboards and alerts, something is still missing. ...

September 1, 2025 · 4 min · Vignesh Ragupathy