Build vs buy discussed 15+ years ago. Nordstrom decided to buy, but hey now let’s build one. Because Kafka and cloud hosting and event sourcing.
https://nordstrom.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/nordstrom_careers/job/Seattle-WA/Senior-Engineer—Order-Management-System_R-238888
Hiring new blood for this? The best two men at Nordstrom Technology could probably sketch out 80% of this in a long weekend. I wonder what they are doing instead these days. Good guys.