Today I present a groovy script for creating a Flexible Search query for any hybris type. You can use the generated query as a template for troubleshooting or data reconciliation. It automatically resolves the RelationType and ComposedType attributes to make the result set human readable. Read More »
In this article, I share my scripts for hybris logging subsystem (changing a log level for any class on the fly) and intercontext bean manipulation. For the second topic, I introduce the scripts for printing a list of all beans of the particular context (such as storefront), executing a method from the any bean, including RequestMapping-defined page controllers, and printing all URLs these controllers are associated with. These manipulations help with troubleshooting and early identifying of misconfiguration issues. Read More »
The Groovy console is a very handy tool to develop and run scripts inside hybris without touching the source code. It is a very powerful tool for debugging purposes, especially if you need to troubleshoot the remote system. In this article, I collected some of the scripts I use regularly in my work. Read More »
In this article, you will find the SIXTH part of the 3-hour presentation given by Rauf Aliev (EPAM SAP hybris Solution Architect) in SAP Moscow on Sep 29, 2017.
In this video, I explain the details of the two solutions, Page Fragment Caching (including the variants with Varnish and Nginx+Memcached) and backend PDF generation using the templates.
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In this article, you will find the FIFTH part of the 3-hour presentation given by Rauf Aliev (EPAM SAP hybris Solution Architect) in SAP Moscow on Sep 29, 2017. In this video, I explain the architecture of Multi-line search, Geofencing, Personalization and complex event processing using Drools Fusion and Product Recommendation engine built on top of hybris Rule Engine and Drools. Read More »
SAP published a brand-new and interesting section this month with no special announcement. It looks interesting for newcomers. The tour shows how to create a simple app using hybris using the best practices from SAP. Read More »
In this article, you will find the THIRD AND FOURTH parts of the 3-hour presentation given by Rauf Aliev (EPAM SAP hybris Solution Architect) in SAP Moscow on Sep 29, 2017.
The third part is about handling multi-word synonyms in hybris. Hybris doesn’t support phrasal synonyms because of limitations of SOLR, the search engine. I present a module that makes it work via customization of hybris search module.
In the fourth part, I tell about automatic facet discovery. This mechanism allows you to deliver better user search experience to the customer by setting up the facets automatically.
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This is a SECOND part of the 3-hour presentation given by Rauf Aliev (EPAM SAP hybris Solution Architect) in SAP Moscow on Sep 29, 2017.
In this video, I explain the details of the project of e-commerce search optimization project as well as the details of the software components developed for this purpose. Using the approach from the video, you will be able to detect the issues with the search configuration, identify the weak points and bottlenecks of your search system, calculate search KPIs for your system and compare the search KPIs before and after the change.
The video is available both in English (voice-over + subtitles) and Russian (original).
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This is a first part of my 3-hour presentation in SAP Moscow on Sep 29, 2017.
In this introductory video, I tell about hybris development in the simple, concise and clear way. No special technical background is required. The presentation is about the technologies under the hood as well as the requirements for the team to support and develop your SAP hybris system.
The video is available in Russian (original) and in English (translated). The latter has subtitles to let you watch it without turning the sound on. The slides are also available for download. Read More »
On August, 30 SAP announced a new version of hybris Commerce, Release 6.5. The detailed information about the new features and changes of the release is published on hybris wiki. However, the official releases are often filled primarily with marketing highlights, so I decided to quickly analyze the data from the documentation portal to reveal important changes possibly not mentioned in the official release notes. Read More »