Automating Banner Crop/Resize Across Breakpoints with Generative AI
Using AI outpainting to transform hundreds of storefront banners for a redesign — at 12 cents per image group.
Migrating SAP Commerce Content with a Graph Database
A graph-database-based approach to extracting, analyzing, transforming, and exporting SAP Commerce CMS content for cross-catalog migration.
Customer-Specific Pricing and Availability in B2B E-Commerce
A practical architecture for handling customer-specific pricing and availability in B2B e-commerce with caching, middleware, and predictive preloading.
SAP Commerce and Punchout – Part 2
A hands-on look at OCI and cXML Punchout capabilities in Hybris / SAP Commerce, including B2B Accelerator, Spartacus, and the old OCI extension.
SAP Commerce and Punchout – Part 1
An introduction to OCI and cXML punchout standards, their history, authentication approaches, session flows, and typical B2B procurement scenarios.
How to Write an RFP That Potential Contractors Will Love
A developer-focused guide to writing clear, practical RFPs that attract better proposals and set software projects up for success.
Decoding LLMs: Insights and Challenges on the Path to AGI
A reflective look at how LLMs work, where they fail, and why current architectures may not be enough to reach AGI.
How to Inject Custom Logic to Intercept and Modify API Requests and Responses Without Touching Frontend/Backend Code
A practical walkthrough of intercepting and modifying API requests and responses with a browser extension and a lightweight Python proxy.
Tracking and Visualizing Real-Time Operational Metrics in E-commerce
How to track, export, visualize, and alert on operational e-commerce metrics in SAP Commerce using Prometheus and Grafana.
Saturday Evening Post Archives: Engineering a Smart Search Solution
A technical walkthrough of building OCR, embeddings, Solr search, and reranking for The Saturday Evening Post archives.
Cross-Posting from Facebook to my RUS and ENG WordPress Blogs: Technical Details
How I migrated thousands of Facebook posts to WordPress, translated them with GPT-4, and automated cross-posting across Russian and English blogs.
Cluster and Conquer: Product Families in Search and Navigation
A practical approach to grouping marketplace products into searchable product families to improve search, navigation, and discovery.