About the Authors

Sigismondo Boschi is a software developer currently involved in projects of messaging and networking distributed applications.

Prior to this, he has had more than 10 years' experience working with distributed applications and message-passing paradigms. He first acquired a PhD in Computational Physical Chemistry from the University of Bologna, and then has worked in the Development of Scientific High Performance Computing Projects.

Gabriele Santomaggio has worked in the IT industry for more than 15 years. He is a developer, and very keen on middleware and distributed applications. Currently, he is working on high-performance Java applications.

He is the member of a big IT Italian community (www.indigenidigitali.com/) where he has published some posts about Amazon Web Services and message-oriented middleware (http://blog.indigenidigitali.com/tag/gabriele-santomaggio/).

He likes running and listening to jazz music.