Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
summary
PostNL migrates to AWS in 2012 and adopts serverless from 2018 to run 70 applications across 30 teams, handling 1.1 million parcels per day with automatic scaling and fewer outages after five years. Systems use Lambda, Fargate, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, Step Functions, EventBridge and Kinesis; developers build cost-aware, throttling- and queuing-aware designs, deploy via one-click AWS account tooling and guardrails (SCPs banning EC2/IM users), and report thousands of feature releases and measurable reliability gains.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Serverless at PostNL
- 1:10PostNL’s logistics and software
- 2:57Why PostNL chose serverless
- 5:48Cost of outages and complexity
- 8:38Managed services and security
- 10:44Serverless adoption tradeoffs
- 16:07Investing in serverless skills
- 20:44Cultural shift and strategy
- 21:05Standing on shoulders of giants
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