Building A Product Recommendation Engine

This article follows a hypothetical contractor hired to help implement AI/ML solutions at a big-box retailer. It details the journey to implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions, which requires solving common challenges such as updating legacy systems, eliminating batch processes, and using innovative technologies. The article also discusses how the product recommendations are served to users on bigboxco.com via a microservice layer in the cloud, which uses a local (cloud) data center deployment of Apache Cassandra to serve up the results.