Author: Rauf Aliev

My new long read is out on hybrismart, this time about the integration of SAP Commerce Cloud (B2B) and USB keys for authentication or verification of critical operations.

The idea is to provide B2B users with a higher level of security (unlike B2C, here it’s really feasible to distribute a USB key to every user).

I tried to describe the technical details in simple terms, and also demonstrate a prototype, with screenshots and architecture.

Despite the title and text mentioning SAP Commerce, the content is generally universal. The most complex part of the integration is understanding its principles, which are explained. There’s nothing specifically tied to Hybris used, hence it’s universal.

Welcome!

https://hybrismart.com/2019/05/23/authentication-with-hardware-security-keys-via-webauthn-in-sap-commerce-cloud/

Kubernetes

Ooooo

A very interesting lecture by Mikhail Nikitin about life (Russian biologist, research fellow at the Department of Evolutionary Biochemistry of the A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology)

Nadya – about the “Chernobyl” series

https://www.kp.ru/daily/26981.7/4040315/

Whipped up a scanning machine on the fly. The goal was to scan a book, lots and lots of pages, without leaving any scanning marks on the book (hence, two regular home scanners were out of the question). It worked!

Home of childless children 🙂

Choosing a yacht

watching “how they shot The Bells//Game of Thrones”

the guy has an interesting job title 🙂

Update on Hybrismart:

Segmenting access to B2B portal goods by customers within a huge catalog (1M), a vast base of B2B customers (tens of thousands), and the need to separate access between product-customer according to millions of rules, so that no customer sees anything extra.

It seems like this is a contrived problem. We currently have two clients with such requirements. The thing is, in B2B there is an increasing number of offers based on the Make to Order principle, where a product is created specifically for a customer, and then added to the catalog for quick ordering. No one else may need this product, so it should not be shown to others. However, such products still have inventory and SKU in ERP.

https://hybrismart.com/2019/05/20/product-whitelisting-blacklisting-large-volumes-in-commerce-cloud/

While everyone’s watching the latest “Game of Thrones”, the Chernobyl series went unnoticed. Not the one you saw on TNT, but from HBO. Only the first two episodes are out, but it’s already clear from them that it’s a must-watch.

The first episode was an excellent reconstruction of the initial days of the tragedy. The authenticity meter was off the charts: the Americans managed to capture the tiniest details of the era without veering into “Hollywood”, catering to the tastes and expectations of the mainstream audience. Even the actors are astonishingly similar to their real-life counterparts. The second episode was slightly less coherent, but it still didn’t spoil the overall impression.

Importantly, before the release of the HBO film, there was almost nothing worth watching. The 2004 Discovery documentary drama was too staged, and the Polish-Ukrainian “Chernobyl: 30 Years Later” was terribly made, with a million repetitions of text and images, and a single message: “nuclear power plants are evil”.

Whether intentionally or not, the theme of the conflict at the station before the accident was completely omitted. Perhaps the scriptwriters did not find the facts compelling enough, or they had reasons not to consider them as facts. Dyatlov maintained until his death that the cause was technical, while station workers unanimously blamed him. From a dramatic standpoint, there was a lot to add to the first episode, but HBO rightly decided not to turn the episode into trivial sensationalism, focusing instead on other aspects.

Enjoy watching 🙂

P.S. Now let’s see our version on TNT.