Deep-dive articles on e-commerce architecture, search technology, AI, and the engineering behind complex systems.
An introduction to OCI and cXML punchout standards, their history, authentication approaches, session flows, and typical B2B procurement scenarios.
A developer-focused guide to writing clear, practical RFPs that attract better proposals and set software projects up for success.
A reflective look at how LLMs work, where they fail, and why current architectures may not be enough to reach AGI.
A practical walkthrough of intercepting and modifying API requests and responses with a browser extension and a lightweight Python proxy.
How to track, export, visualize, and alert on operational e-commerce metrics in SAP Commerce using Prometheus and Grafana.
A technical walkthrough of building OCR, embeddings, Solr search, and reranking for The Saturday Evening Post archives.
How I migrated thousands of Facebook posts to WordPress, translated them with GPT-4, and automated cross-posting across Russian and English blogs.
A practical approach to grouping marketplace products into searchable product families to improve search, navigation, and discovery.
How to reduce unnecessary SAP Commerce database writes by using hashes, delta detection, and optimized batch import strategies.
A speculative look at how multimodal AI could become an informational exoskeleton for the brain, reshaping privacy, efficiency, and human capability.
A practical story of reverse-engineering a complex Excel estimator by translating formulas into lazy Groovy calculations with mocks and traceable output.
A practical approach to collecting, processing, and reporting search behavior data to improve e-commerce search relevance and business outcomes.
