Nordstrom Data Lab and AWS - David Von Lehman and Jason Wilson

Monday, March 10 6-8 pm

The Nordstrom Data Lab is building out an API that powers product recommendations for our customer online and beyond. Recommendo, our flagship product, was built from the ground up using Node.js and AWS in a little over three months. Since launch in November 2013 we've served up over three billion recommendations and survived Black Friday and Cyber Monday without breaking a sweat. We'll be sharing our learnings for building and operating a high traffic API on the AWS platform as a service focusing on Node.js, Elastic Beanstalk, and DynamoDB. Additionally we'll discuss some of the cultural challenges and opportunities presented when adopting the public cloud at a large corporate IT organization. In short, we believe there are tremendous advantages to be had for enterprises willing to make the leap to the cloud.

BIO
Jason and David are developers in the Nordstrom Data Lab focusing on infrastructure development for Nordstrom's next generation personalization platform. Before joining Nordstrom Jason held various engineering roles in military / defense and gaming. David was previously a member of the Nordstrom Innovation Lab and prior to that spent several years as an Application Architect for Nordstrom.com.

6:00-6:30 Food & Networking
6:30-7:30 Presentation
7:30-8:00 Q & A

Sponsor

Altasource Group

Altasource Group is a US owned nearshore staffing and IT consulting company that brings world class software development solutions to businesses across North America.

http://www.altasourcegroup.com

Altasource Group has AWS roles available! Come to the event and meet them if you are interested.