Stories From the Trenches

Aligning Jira and Instagantt is a common challenge for project managers. We found that manual syncing caused chaos and inaccurate reporting. The solution isn't choosing one tool over the other, but running them in parallel. Start with Instagantt for high-level features and immediate clarity for stakeholders, while simultaneously setting up corresponding user stories in Jira for detailed team execution. This parallel approach ensures both tools stay updated, turning potential chaos into clarity and improving project delivery speed and visibility.

Surya Digital’s stance on usage of AI by junior software engineers.

This is more opinionated view of how sketching and writing things down has reduced my anxiety, and made me work in a structured way as a product designer.

Building scalable theming in React involves treating themes as centralized configuration objects rather than scattered CSS hacks. This post guides you through designing flexible, maintainable, and portable theme systems using React Context, inline styles, and sound architecture. It covers common pitfalls, project scaling, and UI library integration.

Most developers assume they know what READ COMMITTED, REPEATABLE READ, and SERIALIZABLE really mean, but PostgreSQL’s MVCC engine has a few surprises in store. This blog unpacks the real behavior behind each isolation level, exposes the anomalies they allow (and why), and shows how PostgreSQL bends the classic SQL-92 model in clever, performance-conscious ways. If you care about data consistency, concurrent transactions, or why SERIALIZABLE isn’t just a buzzword, this is the deep dive you didn’t know you needed.