While my team was building the Fulfillment Dashboard (FD) backend for our client Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS), our biggest hurdle was getting live tracking updates for thousands of active orders without bringing our system to a crawl. If we had to poll individual carrier REST APIs every few minutes, the network overhead would have been completely unmanageable. Integrating project44 was a major architectural win. They provide a unified webhook system that pushes shipment lifecycle events directly to us. We just exposed a secure Spring Boot endpoint, captured their JSON push payloads, and dropped them straight into Apache Kafka topics for asynchronous processing. This completely eliminated our need to write polling schedulers and played a massive role in our ability to drop our external API calls by over 90%.

It takes the guesswork out of ETAs. The interface is straightforward, and the real-time updates across different shipping modes mean we don’t have to do manual check-ins. That makes our day-to-day work noticeably smoother.

Project44 provides a great API to work with, allowing us to integrate our TMS with the site to provide tracking for carriers hauling some of our customer's freight. Easy to use UI with very snappy performance.