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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A legacy SAP Commerce WCMS approach for separating global and regional content catalogs by administrator permissions.
A technical experiment showing how to run Apache SOLR 6 with SAP hybris 6, including configuration changes and a custom MultiMaxScoreQParser.

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

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