Tradeshift Code Monkey Joakim Recht is back with the follow up to his first tech article Tradeshift Technology Preview. As previously mentioned, the core Tradeshift platform is built using a Grails frontend and a Java backend. Grails is one of those rapid development environments inspired by Ruby on Rails, just implemented in Groovy instead of Rails…. More »

This article is written by a new author on our blog – Tradeshift Code Monkey Joakim Recht. Enjoy his preview of the Tradeshift Technology triggered by our Tradeshift Technology, Glögg & Æbleskiver event happening in Copenhagen today. It turns out I’ve been at Tradeshift for quite a while now – it’s been almost two years… More »

One of the biggest strengths of Tradeshift is our unique App Framework that grants developers access to our powerful REST API. It allows ourselves and 3rd party developers to extend Tradeshift in different areas without cluttering the user experience for everyone. For instance – not everyone has a need to send purchase orders or quotes or… More »

Yesterday at 8pm CEST, Tradeshift experienced a prolonged service unavailability. We restored the services manually, and there was no data loss for any Tradeshift customer. We kept users up-to-date on status.tradeshift.com from the moment the outage occurred and communicated status continuously here and on Twitter. The unavailability was due to our infrastructure service provider being… More »

Over the last couple of days, the web has been buzzing with problems and solutions to how to stay on-air when a big cloud-service provider such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) fails to deliver cloud services. The Tradeshift platform is built on cloud technology including Amazon’s EC2 but was, for multiple reasons, not affected… More »