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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 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
90M unique prices for 500K user groups
Search · 3 min read

90M unique prices for 500K user groups

A proof-of-concept approach for serving 90 million personalized prices for 500,000 customer groups using a dedicated Solr core.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Visual representation of hybris data model (items.xml)
Development Tools · 1 min read

Visual representation of hybris data model (items.xml)

An alpha preview of a hybris add-on that visualizes the items.xml data model using Graphviz-generated diagrams.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
hybris/OKTA SSO integration
Integrations · 5 min read

hybris/OKTA SSO integration

A proof of concept for integrating hybris with Okta SSO using the samlsinglesignon extension and a custom storefront token processor.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Multi-country content catalogs
Architecture · 3 min read

Multi-country content catalogs

A legacy SAP Commerce WCMS approach for separating global and regional content catalogs by administrator permissions.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Search · 3 min read

Apache SOLR 6 with SAP hybris 6

A technical experiment showing how to run Apache SOLR 6 with SAP hybris 6, including configuration changes and a custom MultiMaxScoreQParser.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Hybris 6 "Could have fired" messages (PoC)
E-Commerce · 3 min read

Hybris 6 "Could have fired" messages (PoC)

A proof of concept for generating smart “could have fired” promotion messages on product pages in Hybris 6.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Consolidating Content and Product Solr Search
Search · 4 min read

Consolidating Content and Product Solr Search

How to consolidate product and content-page results in a single Hybris Solr index and search experience.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev