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Engineering E-Commerce,
Search & AI

Deep-dive articles on e-commerce architecture, search technology, AI, and the engineering behind complex systems.

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Frontend · 7 min read

hybris 6.2 frontend updates

A practical overview of storefront template, JavaScript, CSS, CMS component, cart, checkout, and account changes introduced in hybris 6.2.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Release Notes · 13 min read

hybris 6.2 data model and bean updates

A technical reference for new and updated item types, attributes, relations, and Spring beans introduced or changed in hybris 6.2.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Product Design for Variants
Architecture · 10 min read

Product Design for Variants

A comparison of five product variant modeling patterns in hybris, including default variants, product families, category-based variants, and multidimensional products.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Geofencing in Hybris: Custom Shipping/Sourcing Zones
Architecture · 5 min read

Geofencing in Hybris: Custom Shipping/Sourcing Zones

A practical architecture for using geofencing to define custom shipping and sourcing zones in SAP Commerce.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Using Drools Fusion for Complex Event Processing in hybris
Architecture · 6 min read

Using Drools Fusion for Complex Event Processing in hybris

A proof of concept for integrating Drools Fusion with hybris to enable asynchronous, scalable real-time personalization and customer segmentation.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Managing localized messages via backoffice
Development Tools · 5 min read

Managing localized messages via backoffice

A custom Backoffice-based approach for managing SAP Commerce localized resource-bundle messages from the database instead of property files.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
What Travel Accelerator is and what it is not
E-Commerce · 7 min read

What Travel Accelerator is and what it is not

A practical look at SAP hybris Travel Accelerator, what it supports, what it does not include, and key technical considerations for hybris 6.1.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
FlexibleSearch Caching Issue
Performance · 3 min read

FlexibleSearch Caching Issue

Hybris FlexibleSearch can cache time-dependent queries incorrectly; use query parameters and rounded timestamps to avoid stale results.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Hybris WMS/ERP Integration: Stock Levels and Reserves
Integrations · 14 min read

Hybris WMS/ERP Integration: Stock Levels and Reserves

A practical guide to SAP Commerce stock-level integration with WMS/ERP systems, covering reserves, discrepancies, bulk updates, bundles, and availability rules.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Multi-instance development environment: symlinking hybris folders
Development Tools · 5 min read

Multi-instance development environment: symlinking hybris folders

A practical way to clone a Hybris 6.1 development instance quickly by copying mutable files and symlinking shared folders.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Data import: Two times faster than ImpEx
Data Migration · 4 min read

Data import: Two times faster than ImpEx

Shows how ServiceLayer Direct and prebuilt lookup tables can speed up high-volume SAP Commerce data imports by reducing lookup and model-loading overhead.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
PredictionIO: Machine Learning in E-Commerce. Complementary Products Based on Order History
AI & ML · 9 min read

PredictionIO: Machine Learning in E-Commerce. Complementary Products Based on Order History

A proof of concept for integrating hybris with PredictionIO to recommend complementary product categories from historical order data.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev