Programmable project infrastructure (not a Jira clone)

I keep seeing teams try to bend Jira into being an internal platform. It never quite works. You end up with automations, plugins, and a graveyard of UI workflows that don’t reflect how your systems actually run. That’s the gap RustGrid is built for: project infrastructure, not a project management app.

The core idea is simple: treat tickets, workflow, and audit as APIs you can wire into anything. If your stack is already programmable, your tracking should be too.

We ship RustGrid with dual APIs: HTTP (Axum) and gRPC (Tonic). That’s not a marketing trick. It’s the line between “use this from anywhere” and “this belongs inside the system.”

HTTP is for reach. It lets you prototype fast, integrate with browser clients, serverless, or tools like Zapier. You can curl the system and it just works.

gRPC is for production-grade internal services. Typed contracts, streaming, low overhead. When you’re wiring events into workflows and enforcing invariants, you want the same guarantees your other services have.

Both APIs hit the same use-case layer. That matters. We don’t ship two versions of the truth. The same domain rules, the same invariants, the same audit trail. If you chose a transport, you shouldn’t be choosing behavior.

The other part people miss: we started from infra semantics. Every write is idempotent. Records are versioned. RBAC and tenant boundaries are enforced at the core. We assume concurrency, retries, and multitenancy are normal, not edge cases. That’s why this feels less like a tool and more like a substrate.

This positioning line finally clicks for people:

RustGrid is programmable project infrastructure—ticketing, workflow, and audit as APIs you can wire into anything.

It’s a little dry on purpose. It’s infrastructure. It should be boring and dependable, not a UI you have to conform to. Bring your own front-end. Or use ours. The point is the system underneath is programmable.

If you want to try it, the path is straightforward: create a tenant, wire HTTP or gRPC, push your first ticket pipeline. That’s the whole product in miniature. You’ll know quickly if it matches the way you build.