Nike has undergone a digital transformation journey from monolithic architecture to microservices and cloud-native applications. They provide personalized experiences to over 1 billion consumers across 30+ countries through 1100+ stores. Key aspects of their journey included transitioning retail commerce and inventory management capabilities to AWS for increased scale, stability, and speed to market. Lessons learned emphasized speed over perfection, an API-first methodology, and establishing guidelines and principles for continuous delivery.

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Nike Retail Cloud Journey
Barend Kuperus
Sr Director Shared Commerce
Platforms / Nike
Murali Narahari
Director Shared Commerce
Platforms / Nike

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MISSION
SERVE CONSUMERS WITH PERSONAL AND PREMIUM
NIKE-ONLY EXPERIENCES TO CREATE ONE-ON-ONE
RELATIONSHIPS.
VISION
TO BRING INSPIRATION AND INNOVATION TO EVERY
ATHLETE* IN THE WORLD.

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BY THE NUMBERS
§ 30+ Countries
§ 1100+ Stores
§ We welcome ~ 1B Consumer
§ Revenue: $36.8B (FY18 Annual report)
§ 35K Store Athletes
TECH
§ 4 AWS regions
§ 150 Engineers
§ 3 Development Locations
§ Several Data Centers

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SPEED
1
STABILITY SCALE
2 3
PROBLEM STATEMENT

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JOURNEY
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FROM TO
MONOLITH
WATERFALL
MANUAL AND LIMITED TEST
COVERAGE
RELEASE BASED DEPLOYMENTS
VENDOR BASED
MICRO-SERVICES AND CLOUD-
NATIVE
AGILE & DEVOPS
AUTOMATION & HIGH TEST
COVERAGE
CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENTS
BALANCED BUILD VS. BUY

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USE CASE 1: RETAIL COMMERCE - THE MONOLITH
First step to provide Mobile POS capability along
with endless isle functionality. Helped move Retail
to enterprise services.

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USE CASE 1: RETAIL COMMERCE - CLOUD TRANSITION
Retail Commerce capability that is untethered
from in-store infrastructure.
Enables scale, channel agnostic commerce and
experiences

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USE CASE 2: RETAIL INVENTORY - CLOUD TRANSITION
Highly scalable RFID capability built on AWS iOT
platform. Speed and scale of the solution is
exceptional.

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SPEED TO VALUE
4 YEARS AGO TODAY
18MONTHS
12MONTHS
6MONTHS
3MONTHS
MOBILE POINT-SALE
STORE INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT CLOUD STORE COMMERCE INSTANT CHECKOUT

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LEARNINGS
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LEARNINGS
SPEED OVER PERFECTION
API FIRST METHODOLOGY
BUILD TO OPERATE
SET GUIDELINES AND PRINCIPLES

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FIND US ON MEDIUM
MEDIUM.COM/NIKEENGINEERING
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