Engineering Perspectives • Architecture & DevOps

Practical software engineering and architecture insights.

Practical articles and architectural guides authored by the software engineering and cloud practices at Heartbeat Systems and Consulting.

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API Development

5 min read•29 Oct 2026

Enterprise API Gateways and Custom Proxy Services: Bridging Legacy and Modern Platforms

A practical guide to modernising legacy enterprise systems incrementally using custom proxy services, REST API gateways and anti-corruption layers.

REST APIsAPI GatewaysSystems IntegrationLegacy Modernisation

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DevOps

5 min read•22 Oct 2026

Declarative GitOps and CI/CD Automation with GitHub Actions, Docker and ArgoCD

Eliminating environment drift and manual deployment risk through immutable Docker containerisation, automated GitHub Actions pipelines and ArgoCD GitOps delivery on AWS.

DevOpsGitOpsArgoCDGitHub Actions

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Apache Kafka

6 min read•15 Oct 2026

Architecting Resilient Event-Driven Systems with Apache Kafka and Spring Boot

How enterprise engineering teams decouple critical transaction workflows, prevent cascading synchronous failures and achieve high-throughput reliability using Apache Kafka and Spring Boot.

Apache KafkaSpring BootJavaEvent-Driven Architecture

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