We’re very humbled to have Dr. Ali Pourshahid, Director of R&D at Klipfolio, come by to start off our talks this year!
There will also be free pizza, so bring your appetite!
The schedule is as follows: 6:00PM - 6:30PM - Speaker prep & mingle 6:30PM - 7:30PM - Talk, Q&A
Talk details below: Subject: How to architect cloud applications for scalability, performance, and resiliency
Description: The talk focuses on challenges of building software in the cloud and at scale including performance, scalability, and resiliency. We’ll discuss why the above non-functional are as important as functional requirements. Moreover, Klipfolio’s technology stack will be introduced and used throughout the presentation as an example. Furthermore, we’ll discuss some of the architectural patterns that can be used in cloud applications for scalability and resiliency purposes.
Bio: Dr. Ali Pourshahid, Director of R&D at Klipfolio, graduated from UOttawa’s Masters of E-business Technologies in 2007 and then received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2014. Since 2003, Ali has worked for several small and large companies in Ottawa including IBM and Enercom, as well as Klipfolio. Ali has held a wide range of technology roles including development, IT architecture and management. Along the way, he has also filed many patents and published several academic papers.
