Month: January 2022

Published on 27 January

Spring CORS Guide: What it Is And How To Enable It

By Alexander FO , In Backend

Introduction A cross-domain call is an HTTP request done via the browser from domain A to domain B via AJAX. An “origin” in the context of a cross-domain call is the combination of the request’s protocol, port, and domain. Originally proposed in the early 2000s, it’s now a standard across all modern browsers. In this post, I’ll explain what CORS is, why it’s important, and how to properly work with it in Spring. Why Use CORS? Before CORS Let’s start by describing the situation before CORS was implemented. Before CORS, a request …

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Published on 19 January

Spring SQL Injection Guide: Examples and Prevention

By Alexander FO , In Backend

Introduction As hackers find increasingly creative ways to attack applications, organizations must try to stay one step ahead in protecting themselves, even from the most common types of attacks and across a variety of frameworks. Let’s start this post with a few definitions. SQL Injection SQL injection is a common way that hackers and users with malicious intentions attempt to hack applications. In an SQL injection, they “inject” values into a database query in order to gain visibility into the database’s structure and eventually gain access to personal data stored in the …

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Published on 18 January

Agile Project Management: The Field Guide

By Alexander FO , In R&D Management

Software projects differ from projects in other engineering disciplines. For instance, if you think about a construction project that’s late and off schedule, you’ll (rightfully) think that adding more construction workers to the pool of employees working on the project will speed things up. The same happens for software projects, no? Well, no. It doesn’t. As described in the seminal book The Mythical Man-Month, “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later” (p. 25). How can that be?  This post is about agile project management in software projects and will try to …

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