Web Services

MicroServices - Selected Links & Resources.

May 18, 2015Adnan Masood

Microservices: An Unexpected Journey (Sam Newman) http://www.slideshare.net/spnewman/qcon-sao-paulo-keynote-microservices-an-unexpected-journey Microservices @ Netflix: A Challenge of Scale http://www.slideshare.net/stonse/microservices-at-netflix Principles of Microservices (ThoughtWorks) http://www.slideshare.net/spnewman/principles-of-microservices-ndc-2014 Developing Enterprise Applications for the Cloud: From Monolith to Microservices (IBM) http://www.slideshare.net/davidcurrie/developing-enterprise-applications-for-the-cloudfrom-monolith-to-microservices Testing & Deploying Microservices (ThoughtWorks) http://www.slideshare.net/spnewman/testing-deploying-microservices-xp-days-ukraine-2014 Growing a Microservices Landscape (With Smart Use Cases) http://www.slideshare.net/aahoogendoorn/20141222-growing-a-microservices-landscape-with-smart-use-cases Think Small to Go Big - Introduction to…

WCF Handling Nested Attributes in AttributeGroup

September 16, 2014Adnan Masood

tldr; SVCUtil does not Generate Code for Nested Attributes in AttributeGroup; here is the code (github repo) and explanation of a workaround. Beyond Controlled HelloWorld() samples, interoperability standards are not black and white, rather a process that has shades of gray. If you've worked on consuming 3rd party 'enterprise' API's, you may have encountered problems with flattening of…

Study Notes for 70-487 - Developing Windows Azure and Web Services

May 28, 2013Adnan Masood

After taking 70-486 - Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications couple of weeks ago, I decided to take the final exam 70-487 - Developing Windows Azure and Web Services last week to finish my MCSD certification. Following are the set of notes I used along with MCT material which may help those preparing for the exam. The topic-by-topic breakdown…

Presentation on Exploring 'Distributed' in DDoS

April 25, 2013April 25, 2013Adnan Masood

Exploring Distributed in DDoS - Social Engineering aspects of an 'Anonymous' style DDoS attack Recorded 24 April 2013. Abstract: With the proliferation of social media and mobile devices to masses, protecting against distributed denial of service attacks has become an arduous technical challenge. Even though we expect much more sophistication, research reports show that majority…

Slides from 11th Annual SecureIT conference- “OWASP Web Services Security - Securing your Service Oriented Architecture”

April 8, 2013April 8, 2013Adnan Masood

I recently spoke to 11th SecureIT conference on "OWASP Web Services Security - Securing your Service Oriented Architecture". This annual event was hosted by UC San Bernardino at Sheraton Fairplex Hotel. This SecureIT Conference conference provides focus and opportunities to higher education staff meeting the challenges of providing a secure information technology environment for campus communities. The…

WCF vs. ASP.NET Web API – An Architect’s Primer - Speaking to Southern California .NET Architecture Users Group

February 18, 2013February 22, 2013Adnan Masood

I will be speaking to the next Southern California .NET Architecture Users Group - IASA chapter meeting will be Thursday February 21, 2013 at Rancho Santiago Community College District, 2323 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm, pizza and networking 6:30 pm. Abstract follows. WCF vs. ASP.NET Web API – An Architect’s Primer…

WCF Security - Speaking @ OWASP Los Angeles November Monthly Meeting

November 29, 2012November 29, 2012Adnan Masood

I had a great time last night speaking to OWASP Los Angeles November Monthly Meeting on the topic of WCF Security – Securing your Service Oriented Architecture. The abstract of the talk, presentation slides and code follows. Abstract: Any Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) needs to support security features that provide auditing, authentication, authorization, confidentiality, and integrity for the messages exchanged between the client and the…

AppFabric, PSModulePath and Error Code 1603

October 23, 2012Adnan Masood

Argh, the 1603 generic error when building a new VM AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code : 1603 with the following information in the log file. 2012-10-12 17:15:42, Information Setup Process.ExitCode: 0x00000643 2012-10-12 17:15:42, Error Setup AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code : 1603 may not be…

Notes from WCF & SOA Talk @ SoCal.NET Architecture Group

May 22, 2012May 31, 2012Adnan Masood

Last week I spoke to Southern California .NET Architecture Group regarding implementation of Service Oriented Design Patterns with Windows Communication Foundation. The talk was an architectural overview of so called SOA tenants and how to implement these best practices using WCF. Being technologists, we tend to focus more on underlying technologies and have tendency to avoid topics like…

Speaking @ SoCal .NET Architecture Users Group - Implementing SOA Design Patterns with WCF

May 4, 2012May 3, 2012Adnan Masood

I will be speaking at the next SoCal IASA chapter meeting will be Thursday May 17, 2012 at Rancho Santiago Community College District, 2323 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm iA, pizza and networking 6:30 pm. RSVP by emailing to mike.vincent@mvasoftware.com if you plan to attend. Implementing SOA Design Patterns with WCF…