<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>DaTom Insights</title><description>Articles by Dawid Tomkalski on software architecture for SaaS: ledgers, payments, AWS and technical leadership.</description><link>https://datom.com.au/insights/</link><language>en-au</language><atom:link href="https://datom.com.au/insights/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>What a fractional architect does in the first 90 days</title><link>https://datom.com.au/insights/fractional-architect-first-90-days/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://datom.com.au/insights/fractional-architect-first-90-days/</guid><description>How the first three months with a fractional architect or CTO run: learning the system, written findings and priorities, then a steady rhythm of decisions and reviews.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Fractional CTO and tech lead</category><category>Architecture review</category><author>info@datom.com.au (Dawid Tomkalski)</author></item><item><title>One payment interface, many gateways and a separate PCI vault</title><link>https://datom.com.au/insights/payment-interface-pci-vault-multiple-gateways/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://datom.com.au/insights/payment-interface-pci-vault-multiple-gateways/</guid><description>How to support several payment gateways behind one interface while tokenised card data stays in a separate PCI vault, and what that does to your PCI DSS scope.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Payments integration</category><author>info@datom.com.au (Dawid Tomkalski)</author></item><item><title>Designing a trust accounting ledger that can’t double-debit</title><link>https://datom.com.au/insights/trust-accounting-ledger-double-debit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://datom.com.au/insights/trust-accounting-ledger-double-debit/</guid><description>How I design trust accounting ledgers: double-entry, an append-only journal, idempotency keys enforced by the database, reversals, periods and reconciliation.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Trust accounting software</category><author>info@datom.com.au (Dawid Tomkalski)</author></item></channel></rss>