Scaling for Global Growth with Modern Cloud
summary
Globalization Partners builds a platform that hires legally in 187 countries using a serverless stack centered on EventBridge, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and Backstage for self‑service. A payment/billing proof point moved a 35‑squad monolith into bounded accounts in ~18 months, cutting run costs, raising feature throughput and improving operational efficiency ~80%. Practices include Well‑Architected reviews, STRIDE threat modeling, OpenTelemetry tracing and a Databricks data lake for unified event schemas. serverless-first event-driven
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:36Why serverless?
- 2:28The value flywheel
- 5:04Strategy
- 16:07The proof point
- 27:34Platform
- 33:25Products
- 39:52Key learnings
- 44:51The trinity
- 46:35Summary
- 47:38Outro
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