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Yep... A couple of million of packages daily + tracking a fleet of vehicles, client facing site, apis for their tracking and courrier services/devices plus some internal services (billing etc...).. this seems like it would fit on a few racks, not nearly 400million, or whatever the full number is (since 400m are just the savings).

But yeah... old company, they might still have stuff written in cobol virtualized somewhere.



Their Memphis air hub processes 2 million packages by itself during the season. You also forgot to include FedEx Freight in your estimate.


edit - Autocorrect was terrible on my phone today!... The Fedex Memphis air hub processes more than 2 million packages a day itself during the winter holiday peak season.


With 300k employees you can expect them to have thousands of disparate services that will likely get rewritten part of such migration


But even virtualized Cobol should fit in a few racks.




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