Software for operations with no maintenance window.
Gate, yard and equipment in one operational view, correct while ships are arriving and containers are moving.
What is hard about this sector, before anybody writes software.
If a line below would still be true had we never worked in this sector, it is not specific enough to be on the page.
Three pictures of one operation
Gate, yard and equipment are tracked separately, so where a container is depends on who you ask and how recently they looked.
There is no quiet period
Nothing can be taken down to be fixed. Every release goes out while the operation is running.
Correctness under write pressure
The record has to stay right while events arrive continuously, which is a much harder problem than being right at rest.
Exceptions are the workload
The normal path is easy. Almost all operational cost sits in the moves that did not go as planned.
Capabilities, in the order they matter.
Gate, yard and equipment in one operational view, under continuous demand and with no window to take the system down.
One operational view
Position, movement, throughput and exceptions across yard, gate and equipment, in real time and against one record.
Gate operations
Arrival and departure captured as events at the moment they happen rather than keyed in afterwards.
Yard management
Where things are and where they are going, kept current while the yard is working.
Equipment coordination
Machines and moves coordinated against the same record the gate and the yard are reading.
Exception handling
The moves that did not go to plan surfaced as first-class work rather than found later in a report.
Reversible releases
Every deployment goes out into a live operation, which means every deployment has to be able to come back.
Systems running in this sector.
Derived from the engagement record, so this section cannot list work that is not in it.
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LogisticsLive container terminal
A container terminal operator
Real-time yard, gate and equipment visibility in one operational view, under continuous operational demand.
What changes about security in this sector.
A terminal system’s worst outcome is not a breach, it is a stop. Availability is the security property that dominates here: releases are reversible, failure modes are designed for rather than discovered, and no change reaches production without a named person approving it who can be asked why.
DevTechGuru holds no security or industry certification, and no page on this site claims one. Where a regime applies it is named as your obligation and as a design constraint we build inside. Ownership, handover and AI governance covers what a procurement reviewer usually asks next.
Technology
- Backend
- PythonDjangoFastAPINode.js
- Data
- PostgreSQLMySQLRedisData modelling
- Cloud
- AWSDockerCI/CDInfrastructure as code
- Operations
- Metrics and tracingAlertingLog aggregationRelease automation
Questions we get asked.
Questions this sector asks that the others do not.
How do you deploy into an operation that never stops?
Reversibly. A release that cannot be rolled back is a commitment made on behalf of everybody downstream, and in a terminal that means on behalf of ships that are already alongside.
Can you integrate with the equipment and systems already on site?
That is the usual requirement. Software that needs the hardware replaced first is not a solution to an operational problem, it is a second project.
Where to go next
You do not need to arrive with a perfect technical specification.
Start with the problem. Tell us what is slowing the business down, what you want to build, or where the current system is failing. We will tell you the shortest path forward, including when that path is not us.
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