Realtime logistics

Northwind Hub

A realtime operations dashboard for a small logistics team.

Northwind Hub
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Description
Live clients up to 300
Event throughput 5k / sec
Time-to-reload near zero

Northwind Hub is the control room for a regional logistics team. Dispatchers watch live vehicle positions, assign jobs, and replay the last 48 hours of activity to debug routing issues.

The problem

Dispatchers were toggling between a mapping app, a spreadsheet, and a group chat. Context switches were the single biggest cause of missed pickups.

What I built

A single surface that merges the live map, the job queue, and team chat, backed by a Redis stream and a slim WebSocket fanout service. State survives reconnects cleanly.

Outcome

Missed pickups fell by around a third in the first quarter, and the team retired two standalone tools.

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