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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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A Look Into the 2205 SAP Commerce Cloud Release
Release Notes · 6 min read

A Look Into the 2205 SAP Commerce Cloud Release

A guest author reviews the SAP Commerce Cloud 2205 release, covering Backoffice usability, OCC APIs, Spartacus, B2B integration, ISS, and cloud security.

Tejaskumar Patel
Tejaskumar Patel
Lessons Learned: Migrating to CCv2
Data Migration · 12 min read

Lessons Learned: Migrating to CCv2

Practical lessons learned from migrating an SAP Commerce Cloud project from CCv1 to CCv2, covering CI/CD, infrastructure, data migration, and code changes.

Olesia Voloshina
Olesia Voloshina
End-to-End Test Automation: Why Was It Worth to Write Our Custom Framework
Testing · 19 min read

End-to-End Test Automation: Why Was It Worth to Write Our Custom Framework

A practical look at why a team built a custom end-to-end API testing framework and how its recipe-based architecture works.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Process · 1 min read

Hybrismart Supports Ukraine 🇺🇦

Hybrismart asks readers to consider financially supporting organizations helping with the Ukraine humanitarian crisis.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Shopping Cart in SAP Commerce: Performance, Architecture, Pitfalls, Testing
E-Commerce · 16 min read

Shopping Cart in SAP Commerce: Performance, Architecture, Pitfalls, Testing

A deep dive into SAP Commerce shopping cart architecture, performance bottlenecks, calculation, promotions, restoration, cleanup, and testing.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Autocomplete and Suggestions in Impex and FlexibleSearch HAC Consoles
Development Tools · 4 min read

Autocomplete and Suggestions in Impex and FlexibleSearch HAC Consoles

How to enable hidden Impex suggestions in HAC and add contextual autocomplete for FlexibleSearch using CodeMirror hints.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
SAP Commerce Cloud 2011: What’s New?
Release Notes · 6 min read

SAP Commerce Cloud 2011: What’s New?

A practical overview of SAP Commerce Cloud 2011, including OCC API updates, Integration API enhancements, Backoffice improvements, and search changes.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Development Tools · 3 min read

Three Useful GitHub Repos That Every SAP Commerce Developer Should Consider

A quick look at GitHub projects that help SAP Commerce developers build FlexibleSearch queries, inspect deployed Git metadata, and automate HAC tasks.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
How to make native SQL coexist with SAP Commerce Persistence. Part II
Architecture · 15 min read

How to make native SQL coexist with SAP Commerce Persistence. Part II

A deep dive into using native SQL with SAP Commerce persistence, including multitenancy, model retrieval, caching, lazy loading, and bulk updates.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
A Look Into The v2005 SAP Commerce Cloud Release
Release Notes · 11 min read

A Look Into The v2005 SAP Commerce Cloud Release

A guest author reviews SAP Commerce Cloud v2005, including new APIs, B2B/B2C endpoint coexistence, bundling, workflow design, security, and EOL changes.

Myles Bunbury
Myles Bunbury
At a Crossroads, Take a Broader View
Architecture · 9 min read

At a Crossroads, Take a Broader View

SAP Commerce expertise is less niche than it seems: its core concepts map to widely used e-commerce patterns, Java technologies, and transferable architecture skills.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
King. Dethroned.
E-Commerce · 13 min read

King. Dethroned.

Myles Bunbury examines why SAP Commerce Cloud lost its Forrester Wave leader position in 2020 and what that meant for the platform.

Myles Bunbury
Myles Bunbury