by Adam FarrellAs engineers at Nike, we are constantly being asked to deliver features faster, more reliably and at scale. With these pressures, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the complexity of modern microservice stacks. Through the functionality provided by AWS-managed services, our team has found ways to ease the burden of development. In the following paragraphs we’ll outline how we learned and leveraged several AWS services to deliver the Foundation Invite Event Stream to Audiences (FIESTA), a service for sending triggered notifications to millions of Nike’s users, under budget and ahead ..read more

by Arthy Ferguson, Lars Fjelstad and Will HoughIn 2015, Nike Software Architect Amber Milavec set her sights on empowering women, encouraging diversity and promoting inclusivity in the tech industry. With these ideals in mind, she founded the We Code Hackathon, an annual event in Portland, Oregon that is now a co-production of Beaverton-based Nike and Portland software company, Puppet. We Code is intended for participants of all levels and expertise to grow as engineers and shape the field of technology in Portland. In 2017, We Code added the Non-Profit Challenge, inviting local community orga ..read more

Nike has been aggressively marching towards cloud-native, micro-service architecture to enable speed, scale, and stability across the enterprise. Over the last five years, we have re-imagined our entire technology stack using observability, security, reliability, availability, and performance as core principles for software development. With a focus on Agile, CI/CD and DevOps practices, we built autonomous teams organized by domain for speed and agility. The challenges that result from this kind of fundamental shift in our organization have been met head-on by building a strong sense of commun ..read more

Continuous Learning — Part III strive to be a lifelong learner. I continuously seek out new information, so I can grow, acquire knowledge and expand my understanding, with the goal of always learning. I am proud that technology leaders at Nike put an emphasis on continuous learning and believe it’s a critical component to our success and evolution as innovators in the digital space. Leaders and employees alike are constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, expanding their competencies with a diversity of thought — and technology — in order to get after new opportunities in the marke ..read more