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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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Hybris 1.0. A Retro Look Into 15-year-old Version
E-Commerce · 3 min read

Hybris 1.0. A Retro Look Into 15-year-old Version

A hands-on retrospective of hybris 1.0 from 2001, including its WebMC admin UI, initialization, storefront, search, and early platform concepts.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Hybris HAC secrets
Development Tools · 2 min read

Hybris HAC secrets

A quick tour of hidden and undocumented HAC features, including interceptor pages, Growl notifications, footer details, and Easter eggs.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
What you don’t know about FlexibleSearch
Development Tools · 3 min read

What you don’t know about FlexibleSearch

A closer look at lesser-known FlexibleSearch features, including field and type modifiers, predefined named values, and ORDER BY marker behavior.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Mastering hybris Impex: Recipes and Secrets
Data Migration · 6 min read

Mastering hybris Impex: Recipes and Secrets

A practical collection of lesser-known ImpEx techniques, including conditional imports, BeanShell scripting, external data sources, maps, and collections.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
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