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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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Facet Search: The Most Comprehensive Guide. Best Practices, Design Patterns, Hidden Caveats, And Workarounds.
Search · 37 min read

Facet Search: The Most Comprehensive Guide. Best Practices, Design Patterns, Hidden Caveats, And Workarounds.

A comprehensive guide to faceted search UX, covering selection patterns, facet types, UI behavior, SEO caveats, and SAP Commerce feature coverage.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Vue Storefront + SAP Commerce: Open-source PWA Storefront Integration (+DEMO)
Integrations · 22 min read

Vue Storefront + SAP Commerce: Open-source PWA Storefront Integration (+DEMO)

A proof-of-concept integration of Vue Storefront with SAP Commerce, covering architecture choices, challenges, limitations, and a demo.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
A Look Into the 1811 SAP Commerce Cloud Release
Release Notes · 10 min read

A Look Into the 1811 SAP Commerce Cloud Release

A guest author reviews SAP Commerce Cloud 1811, including Backoffice PCM dashboards, integrations, JALO dependencies, accelerators, and deprecated modules.

Myles Bunbury
Myles Bunbury
The power of best of breed: Integrating SAP Hybris and Sitecore CommerceConnect
Integrations · 15 min read

The power of best of breed: Integrating SAP Hybris and Sitecore CommerceConnect

A webinar transcript on integrating SAP Hybris Commerce and Sitecore CommerceConnect to create a best-of-breed headless commerce architecture.

Myles Bunbury
Myles Bunbury
Autocomplete, Live Search Suggestions, and Autocorrection: Best Practice Design Patterns
Search · 16 min read

Autocomplete, Live Search Suggestions, and Autocorrection: Best Practice Design Patterns

A practical guide to autocomplete, live search suggestions, autocorrection, and the UX patterns that make e-commerce search easier to use.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Hybris Build System Improved?
Development Tools · 11 min read

Hybris Build System Improved?

A detailed look at a proof of concept for migrating the SAP Hybris build system from Ant to Maven.

Gregory Klymov, Oleksandr Dekin, Dmytro Astakhov
Gregory Klymov, Oleksandr Dekin, Dmytro Astakhov
The Refactoring Challenge
Architecture · 7 min read

The Refactoring Challenge

A reflection on SAP Commerce Cloud’s long-term code evolution, refactoring investments, and the challenge of modernizing core platform foundations.

Myles Bunbury
Myles Bunbury
Useful Groovy Scripts. Part 7.
Development Tools · 3 min read

Useful Groovy Scripts. Part 7.

A collection of Groovy scripts for SAP Commerce troubleshooting, including cache control, cronjob deactivation, type inspection, and CMS structure output.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Spartacus, Angular-based Javascript Storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud
Frontend · 18 min read

Spartacus, Angular-based Javascript Storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud

A hands-on overview of SAP Spartacus, its PWA architecture, CMS integration, routing, custom components, and extension points.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Behind the Scenes of the New SAP Commerce Cloud: Architecture details
Architecture · 11 min read

Behind the Scenes of the New SAP Commerce Cloud: Architecture details

A detailed 2018 look at SAP Commerce Cloud CCv2 architecture, automation, Kubernetes deployment, snapshots, scaling, and build processes.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev
Closing In On The Industries Top CMS Solutions: SAP Commerce Cloud’s New Versioning Feature For Content Management
E-Commerce · 4 min read

Closing In On The Industries Top CMS Solutions: SAP Commerce Cloud’s New Versioning Feature For Content Management

A guest review of SAP Commerce Cloud v1808 CMS versioning and how it compares with native CMS solutions.

Myles Bunbury
Myles Bunbury
Takeaways from SAP Customer Experience Live 2018
E-Commerce · 10 min read

Takeaways from SAP Customer Experience Live 2018

Key announcements and impressions from SAP Customer Experience Live 2018, including C/4HANA, Kyma, Spartacus, and SAP Upscale Commerce.

Rauf Aliev
Rauf Aliev