Logistics

From legacy COBOL to a real-time routing platform

We modernized a 28-year-old dispatch system into a multi-region SaaS platform powering 14,000 daily deliveries — without a single hour of downtime.

Cutover downtime
0h
Route efficiency gain
23%
Deliveries scaled
14k/day
Uptime, year one
99.97%
The challenge

The COBOL system was load-bearing. Any downtime meant trucks idling, drivers paid for nothing, and SLA penalties to anchor customers.

Our approach

Event-driven Postgres + Kafka. Every legacy mutation was mirrored to the new system via change-data-capture. We cut over functional domains weekly, with two-way sync as a safety net.

The outcome

Nine months later, the COBOL system was fully decommissioned. Route optimization gained 23% efficiency. Driver app NPS rose from 14 to 71.

Most teams pitched a rewrite. Evolve Edge pitched a strangler — and shipped against it weekly for nine months. That's why it worked.

Priya Vasan · CTO, Atlas Logistics
Project details
Client
Atlas Logistics
Industry
Logistics
Duration
9 months
Region
Dallas, TX
Tech stack
Next.jsPostgresKafkaKubernetesTerraformDatadog
Services delivered
ModernizationSaaS EngineeringCloud Architecture

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