Obsilis — Researching the Future of Headless Commerce
Obsilis is an ongoing research and development project that aims to redefine how businesses manage content and commerce through a unified Headless Commerce as a Service (HCaaS) model.
The project is focused on building a platform that delivers flexibility, scalability, and modularity, enabling developers and organizations to construct their digital ecosystems with freedom and precision.
Vision and Research Goals
The primary goal of Obsilis is to design an architecture that allows businesses to operate independent frontends across multiple channels — without being tied to traditional monolithic backends.
Through this API-first approach, the project investigates how headless systems can provide greater adaptability, improved performance, and seamless integration with other platforms.
The ongoing research focuses on establishing a cloud-native, service-oriented foundation where developers can integrate any frontend technology or third-party system, supporting modern e-commerce and content workflows.
Modular Architecture Under Development
Obsilis is being developed as a highly modular platform, where every component — from product catalogs to content types — can be independently customized and scaled.
The R&D efforts are centered around:
- Dynamic Schema Modeling — allowing each business to define its own data structures for commerce and content.
- Template-Based Setup — providing predefined schema templates (B2C, B2B, C2C, marketplace) for faster implementation.
- Version Retention Research — exploring how version tracking can enhance data reliability and rollback capabilities for enterprise use cases.
These experiments aim to simplify complex digital commerce operations while maintaining transparency and performance.
Exploring API and Protocol Innovation
The project is testing a unified communication layer that supports both RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
Researchers are also designing a proprietary integration layer — the Obsilis Protocol — to standardize how plugins, SDKs, and external services interact with the platform.
This will help achieve consistent, secure, and developer-friendly integrations across different environments.
Building a Marketplace Ecosystem
As part of its development, Obsilis includes the creation of a Plugin & Extension Marketplace.
This marketplace is envisioned to allow developers to publish reusable modules and businesses to integrate external systems — such as payment gateways, logistics, or CRM tools — without deep technical barriers.
The aim is to make Obsilis a continuously evolving ecosystem driven by the community, adaptable to changing business and technological needs.
Infrastructure and Technology Exploration
The technical foundation of the project is being designed around Go for backend performance, MongoDB for flexible data modeling, and Redis for high-speed caching.
The infrastructure runs on a Docker + Kubernetes environment to ensure horizontal scalability and high availability under distributed workloads.
This setup allows the research team to experiment with deployment topologies and optimize resource utilization for different scales — from small teams to enterprise-level operations.
Long-Term Impact and Future Outlook
When completed, Obsilis is expected to provide a foundation that empowers businesses and developers to build custom commerce ecosystems with minimal friction.
Its modular and headless nature will enable multi-brand, multi-language, and multi-organization management within a single unified system.
The R&D process continues with the goal of making Obsilis a powerful open, extensible, and future-ready HCaaS solution — one that helps shape the next generation of digital commerce infrastructure.
Obsilis — Building the foundation for tomorrow’s commerce, today.