contact@corebaseit.com (Vincent Bevia) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

You can rotate between these over a few weeks, tweak the tone per audience, and add 2–3 targeted hashtags (e.g. #Payments #SoftPOS #POSArchitecture).

I finally pulled together years of POS and SoftPOS architecture work into a book. If you’re dealing with EMV, SoftPOS/MPoC, ISO 8583, HSMs, unattended terminals, or Tap to Pay on COTS—and you care about clean architecture, certification, and real-world failure modes—this is for you. 📙 Details and links: https://corebaseit.com/my-books/

Ever shipped a POS or SoftPOS integration that passed sandbox tests… and then broke in L3 or production? This book is about everything that happens between “it works in the lab” and “it clears reliably at scale”: EMV, MPoC, DUKPT, HSM flows, ISO 8583, idempotent backends, and future‑proof architecture. More here: https://corebaseit.com/my-books/

Wallets, SoftPOS, Tap to Pay, unattended, AI‑driven fraud, post‑quantum crypto. Payment acceptance is changing fast—but the core architecture patterns you choose now will live for a decade. I wrote a book that connects EMV, MPoC, cryptography, certification, and backend design into one practical guide for building modern POS/SoftPOS systems. 🔗 Book page: https://corebaseit.com/my-books/

New book out: Point-of-Sale Systems Architecture — Volume 1. For engineers and architects building POS and SoftPOS: EMV, MPoC, DUKPT, HSMs, ISO 8583, unattended, Tap to Pay, and the patterns that make these systems actually work. 📙 https://corebaseit.com/my-books/

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Architecting modern payment acceptance is harder than ever. Between EMV, SoftPOS/MPoC, PCI DSS, HSMs, ISO 8583, Tap to Pay on COTS devices, and rapidly evolving backend patterns, it’s easy to get lost in specs and vendor docs. What’s been missing is a single, architecture‑first guide that ties it all together. That’s what “Point-of-Sale Systems Architecture — Volume 1” is about. It’s written for software engineers, architects, and technical leaders who need to design and ship real POS and SoftPOS systems—not just draw scheme diagrams: • Terminals and SoftPOS: From traditional EMV terminals and SmartPOS devices to Tap to Pay on iPhone/Android and MPoC‑certified SoftPOS SDKs. • Trust and cryptography: DUKPT, EMV cryptograms, HSMs, PIN blocks, PCI PTS vs MPoC, and how separation of duties actually looks in production. • Application architecture: Layered POS design, state machines for authorisation / pre‑auth / completion / reversal, offline and store‑and‑forward, unattended vs attended environments. • Backends and schemes: ISO 8583 message flows, acquirer/scheme integration, L3 testing, and what labs really look for during certification. • Future trends: Wallet‑first payments, SoftPOS at scale, IoT and vehicle payments, Web3 experiments, AI‑driven fraud and routing, and post‑quantum‑ready key management. The goal is simple: give practitioners a clear mental model and a set of patterns they can apply immediately—whether they’re integrating an EMV kernel, embedding a SoftPOS SDK, or designing an acquirer gateway. If you work in POS, SoftPOS, payment processing, or payment security, I’d love for you to check it out and tell me what resonates (and what you disagree with).

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