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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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Concurrent Update of SAP Commerce Cloud Item Relations
Architecture · 4 min read

Concurrent Update of SAP Commerce Cloud Item Relations

How SAP Commerce Cloud relation updates can trigger optimistic locking conflicts, and how to disable unnecessary last-modified updates.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Part 3. Performance Scripting: Writing Load Generators from Scratch
Performance · 13 min read

Part 3. Performance Scripting: Writing Load Generators from Scratch

How to build a Python asyncio-based load generator from scratch for SAP Commerce Cloud API performance and concurrency testing.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Part 2. Performance Testing Tools: Tsung
Testing · 11 min read

Part 2. Performance Testing Tools: Tsung

A practical walkthrough of using Tsung for high-volume SAP Commerce Cloud performance testing, including configuration, load phases, and result analysis.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Part 1. SAP Commerce Cloud Performance Testing Tools: Apache JMeter
Testing · 7 min read

Part 1. SAP Commerce Cloud Performance Testing Tools: Apache JMeter

A practical guide to using Apache JMeter for SAP Commerce Cloud API and storefront performance testing, including dynamic payloads, OAuth, CSRF, and sessions.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Fixing Oops with JGroups: Advanced Clustering for SAP Commerce Cloud
DevOps · 13 min read

Fixing Oops with JGroups: Advanced Clustering for SAP Commerce Cloud

A practical deep dive into SAP Commerce Cloud clustering, JGroups discovery, JDBC_PING, KUBE_PING, failure detection, and troubleshooting.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
SAP Commerce: Reducing Compile Time
DevOps · 3 min read

SAP Commerce: Reducing Compile Time

A custom Ant macrodef approach for reducing SAP Commerce build time by running build callbacks only for changed extensions.

Aleksandr Romanov
Aleksandr Romanov
SAP CPQ: New SAP Solution for Sales Teams
E-Commerce · 5 min read

SAP CPQ: New SAP Solution for Sales Teams

An overview of SAP CPQ capabilities, configuration options, quote management features, pros and cons, and integration options.

Pavel Shebarshin
Pavel Shebarshin
Product Content Hub: A Beginner’s Guide to New SaaS PIM from SAP
E-Commerce · 17 min read

Product Content Hub: A Beginner’s Guide to New SaaS PIM from SAP

A beginner’s guide to SAP Product Content Hub, its SaaS PIM architecture, dynamic product modeling, integrations, Productsup, and limitations.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Integrating Contentstack with SAP Commerce Cloud and Data Migration
Data Migration · 19 min read

Integrating Contentstack with SAP Commerce Cloud and Data Migration

A practical look at integrating Contentstack with SAP Commerce Cloud and migrating CMS content and page structures to a headless CMS.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Payments: A Look Inside the Black Box
E-Commerce · 39 min read

Payments: A Look Inside the Black Box

A practical primer on online card payments, payment processing, SAP Commerce integration, and the edge cases large e-commerce systems must handle.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
SAP Commerce Developers Toolset: a free IntelliJ plugin for SAP Commerce Development
Development Tools · 4 min read

SAP Commerce Developers Toolset: a free IntelliJ plugin for SAP Commerce Development

An introduction to the free open-source SAP Commerce Developers Toolset plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, including installation options, contribution model, licensing, and key features.

Mykyta Kostiuk
Mykyta Kostiuk
The Challenges of Chinese and Japanese Searching
Search · 33 min read

The Challenges of Chinese and Japanese Searching

A deep look at the linguistic, indexing, tokenization, and UX challenges involved in Chinese and Japanese search.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev