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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 Runtime Developer Tools
Development Tools · 3 min read

Hybris Runtime Developer Tools

An announcement of hybris Runtime Developer Tools, a set of command-line and REST API utilities for faster development and troubleshooting.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Hybris Development Skill Tree
Development Tools · 1 min read

Hybris Development Skill Tree

A visual skill tree showing the core knowledge areas and dependencies for hybris developers.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Using hybris rule engine for product recommendations
AI & Automation · 5 min read

Using hybris rule engine for product recommendations

A proof of concept for using the hybris Drools-based rule engine to generate product recommendations from custom conditions and actions.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Hybris cluster / Redis session failover
Architecture · 3 min read

Hybris cluster / Redis session failover

A proof of concept showing how Redis-backed Tomcat sessions can support failover in a hybris cluster.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
hybris page fragment caching with NGINX and memcached
Performance · 4 min read

hybris page fragment caching with NGINX and memcached

A practical walkthrough of page-fragment caching for hybris using NGINX as a reverse proxy and memcached as the direct cache store.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Varnish caching in hybris
Performance · 8 min read

Varnish caching in hybris

A proof-of-concept approach for integrating Varnish, ESI, JSP cache tags, and MongoDB-backed fragment caching with hybris.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Page fragment caching for hybris
Performance · 5 min read

Page fragment caching for hybris

A proof of concept for caching SAP hybris page fragments with JSP custom tags, MongoDB-backed storage, and targeted cache invalidation.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
hybris Marketplace PoC: 2,000,000 products, 15,000 categories, 6000 search facets
Search · 5 min read

hybris Marketplace PoC: 2,000,000 products, 15,000 categories, 6000 search facets

A proof of concept for handling two million marketplace products, 15,000 categories, and 6,000 facets in Hybris using direct Solr loading.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Highlighting in Hybris Search
Search · 2 min read

Highlighting in Hybris Search

How to make classification attributes searchable in Hybris and use Apache Solr highlighting to show matching snippets in search results.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Distributed promotion calculation in the cluster. Promo as a service
Architecture · 3 min read

Distributed promotion calculation in the cluster. Promo as a service

A proof of concept for calculating product-level promotions outside the SAP Commerce cluster to support category, search, and product pages at scale.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Hybris + SolrCloud: sharding and distributed indexing
Search · 5 min read

Hybris + SolrCloud: sharding and distributed indexing

Explains how to integrate Hybris with SolrCloud to add sharding, distributed indexing, failover, and centralized configuration beyond a traditional Solr cluster.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
SOLR-based dynamic availability groups. PoC: 500K availability groups
Search · 3 min read

SOLR-based dynamic availability groups. PoC: 500K availability groups

A proof of concept for handling 500,000 personalized product availability groups in SAP Commerce using a dedicated SOLR core.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev