Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

— And what have you achieved in life?

Gradually posting videos of my presentation at SAP Moscow on September 28, organized by EPAM and SAP.

It is presented in two versions – the original (in Russian) and a translation (in English). The latter even includes subtitles, so you can read instead of listen.

Today, I am posting the first part, the first 30 minutes. This includes the introduction, plus a section on “What is hybris, in simple words.” I tried to explain in plain terms what it is, about developing a project on Hybris.

I also briefly explain the set of knowledge and experience needed by a developer to quickly get to grips with the subject.

The following parts (concerning specific solutions) will be released as they become ready. There should be about four parts in total.

At the link, you can also download slides from the video (PDF).

But why should we give up our seats to children in the metro? // Saw it three times in two weeks

Based on all five photos from the Moscow Marathon, I spent the entire distance glued to Facebook.

A three-hour presentation at SAP – done! Hope to share the video and slides soon. Discussed:

• “Good Architect” vs “Good Scientist”

• Hybris in a nutshell: how it works

• E-commerce search analytics: architecture, examples

• Architecture of Multi-word synonyms & subphrase search

• Architecture of Automatic Facet Discovery

• Architecture of Multi-line search

• Architecture of Geofencing module

• Architecture of Drools Fusion and Event Processing

• Architecture of Recommendation Engine

• Architecture of Page Fragment Caching

• PDF reports / agreements / forms

• Promo calculation in a cluster outside Hybris

For dessert, Andrey Sorokin and Andrey Volkov shared very valuable experience regarding 36.6 – thank you, it was very precious and interesting.

Thanks to Michail Chuguev, Alexander Dnestranskiy, Sofia Odintseva for the organization!

reminds me of a legendary guy who, in the 70s, wrote a letter to the Balabanovskaya match factory. The guy wrote something like this – “I’ve been counting matches in your boxes for 11 years now – sometimes 59, sometimes 60, and sometimes even 58. Are you all mad over there or what?”

Please provide the text you would like translated.

Friends, I invite you to my master class at SAP on September 28th at 2 PM. It is open to all who are interested, but registration is mandatory, and the number of spots is limited. Also, it will be a nice chance to meet as I won’t be in Russia for long.

The slides will feature diagrams and screenshots, not kittens and other nonsense, and there will even be some code at one point, so it will be more interesting for engineers than for those in humanities. But overall, the presentation is aimed at a fairly broad audience. It should be clear and interesting to everyone involved in e-commerce development.

Ran. 53:10 / 10.1 km. Pace 5:16, i.e., 52:40 min/10 km. Aimed for five minutes per kilometer, but didn’t succeed. It was very hot, plus the crowd was slowing down at the start, could have made up about 20 seconds there. The main reason, of course, is that I need more training! The organization of the Moscow Marathon this year was simply excellent.

Here’s a longer video from Tsaritsyno. It gets more lively after the first minute. Very beautiful. The phone doesn’t capture everything, it’s still dark