Filament Operations Platform

Client work: a bespoke operations platform for a logistics company running on a heavily customised PostgreSQL schema. Filament powers the admin surface; role-based access controls eleven distinct user capabilities across three organisation tiers.

Highlights

  • Multi-tenant architecture with per-organisation data scoping
  • Eleven granular permissions across three organisation tiers
  • Reporting dashboards aggregating millions of shipment rows
  • Zero-downtime Postgres migrations on live traffic

The problem

Operations ran on spreadsheets and a legacy desktop app. Dispatchers needed real-time visibility into shipments, drivers needed mobile-friendly status updates, and management wanted reporting that did not require an analyst to produce.

Architecture decisions

Tenancy is enforced at the Eloquent layer with global scopes keyed on organisation_id, verified by feature tests. Heavy reports read from materialised views refreshed by a scheduled queue job, keeping dashboard queries under 50 ms regardless of table size.

Outcome

The platform replaced three internal tools, cut dispatch turnaround by roughly a third, and has run with zero unplanned downtime since launch.

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