Federico Cargnelutti

Month: November 2008

  • Scrum Backlog Templates

    Here are two useful backlog templates provided by Agile Software Development. Both of them are in Excel format (XLS). Check them out: Simple Product Backlog Example Simple Sprint Backlog Example

  • Detect Replay Attacks in your Web Services

    Many threats that are common to distributed systems are common to Web services as well. There are a few specific threats associated with the Web services processing model, such as: Message replays: An attacker may re-play an entire message or a part of a SOAP message. Man in the middle attack: An attacker may view…

  • Getting Started With Message Queues

    When you’re building an infrastructure that is distributed all over the internet, you’ll come to a point where you can’t rely on synchronous remote calls that, for example, synchronize data on 2 servers: You don’t have any failover system that resends messages if something went wrong (network outages, software failures). Messages are processed over time…