Ahmad Nassri's guest appearances

Ahmad Nassri

Three Devs and a Maybe

Vancouver Tech Podcast

Brian Moses

Phil Sturgeon

Jacques Woodcock

Adam Wathan

Jonathan Klein

Brent Vatne

Taylor Otwell

Frank de Jonge

Alex Bilbie

John Richardson

Joe Lynch

Dan Abramov

Kelsey Hightower

Jay Smith

Paul Bowden

OwlTail

Special Guest Ahmad Nassri of Telus Digital Special guest Ahmad Nassri, Principal Architect at Telus Digital joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss community building, TechMasters, and business and team organization. Nassri likes to describe Telus Digital, an approximately 300 person team, with a large presence in Vancouver as well as Toronto, as being the software arm, or the part that enables all the digital experiences that Telus customers, whether business or consumers are interacting with. As the organizer of TechMasters, Nassri is very active helping to bring the technology community closer together. Listen in to find out how this team is able to have developers deploy code to production 300 times a day, with no dedicated ops people, and more! Follow Ahmad Nassri on Twitter at @AhmadNassri and the Vancouver Tech Podcast at @vantechpodcast. Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community. Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

<h2>Special Guest Ahmad Nassri of Telus Digital</h2> Special guest Ahmad Nassri, Principal Architect at Telus Digital joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss community building, TechMasters, and business and team organization. Nassri likes to describe Telus Digital, an approximately 300 person team, with a large presence in Vancouver as well as Toronto, as being the software arm, or the part that enables all the digital experiences that Telus customers, whether business or consumers are interacting with. As the organizer of <a href="https://techmasters.chat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TechMasters</a>, Nassri is very active helping to bring the technology community closer together. Listen in to find out how this team is able to have developers deploy code to production 300 times a day, with no dedicated ops people, and more! Follow Ahmad Nassri on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/AhmadNassri" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@AhmadNassri</a> and the Vancouver Tech Podcast at <a href="https://twitter.com/vantechpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@vantechpodcast</a>. Theme music by <a href="http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Shell In The Pit</a> from the game <a href="http://themeparkitect.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Parkitect</a> The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community. Listen to the show <a href="http://www.vancouvertechpodcast.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">email us</a>, or subscribe to the podcast on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/vancouver-tech-podcast/id1057679825?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a>.

Episode 99: Business Organization with Ahmad Nassri, Principal Architect at Telus Digital

This week we are very lucky to have Ahmad Nassri on the show to discuss the world of API’s and how Kong (the API/Microservice management layer) fits into the picture.We start of discussion with how he got into programming and garnered an entrepreneurial spirit in his homeland of Syria, before moving to Canada in his late teens.Following this we chat about his current companies (Mashape) approach to development, picking the right stack and language for the job at hand.Throughout these experiences and their central ‘Marketplace’ product Kong has been developed, helping unify similar API requirements such as logging, authentication and request transformations.As the word ‘microservices’ has been brought up, discussion then centers around his definition of the term and the three pillars (modularization, componentisation, services) he sees there being.We then move on to the decisions behind using Nginx and Lua as the base for Kong’s development, along with a look into the Lua ecosystem and Mashape’s many contributions.Finally, we chat about Kong’s plugin architecture and the vibrant community/projects that have been created since its initial inception. Show Links  Ahmad Nassri Ahmad Nassri on GitHub Ahmad Nassri on Twitter Mashape - Powering API Driven Software Kong, APIs, and Microservices with Ahmad Nassri - The Changelog The Story So Far: My Journey (Part 1) - Ahmad Nassri The Story So Far: My Journey (Part 2) - Ahmad Nassri ahmadnassri/restful-zend-framework - GitHub ahmadnassri/restconsole - GitHub Unirest - Simplified, lightweight HTTP request client libraries in multiple languages Galileo - Build and Deliver Better APIs Gelato.io - Super-Sweet Developer Portals Mashape - Free API Management Platform &amp; Marketplace LuaRocks - The Lua package manager Lua OpenResty - a fast web app server by extending nginx OASIS Web-service specifications - Wikipedia Java The Hutt - WS-Deathstar and the complexity tradeoff What is meant by WS-*? Reporting for duty on WS-Deathstar WS-DeathStar - Flickr mybuilder/kongfig - GitHub

This week we are very lucky to have Ahmad Nassri on the show to discuss the world of API’s and how Kong (the API/Microservice management layer) fits into the picture. We start of discussion with how he got into programming and garnered an entrepreneurial spirit in his homeland of Syria, before moving to Canada in his late teens. Following this we chat about his current companies (Mashape) approach to development, picking the right stack and language for the job at hand. Throughout these experiences and their central ‘Marketplace’ product Kong has been developed, helping unify similar API requirements such as logging, authentication and request transformations. As the word ‘microservices’ has been brought up, discussion then centers around his definition of the term and the three pillars (modularization, componentisation, services) he sees there being. We then move on to the decisions behind using Nginx and Lua as the base for Kong’s development, along with a look into the Lua ecosystem and Mashape’s many contributions. Finally, we chat about Kong’s plugin architecture and the vibrant community/projects that have been created since its initial inception. <h3>Show Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.ahmadnassri.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ahmad Nassri</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ahmadnassri" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ahmad Nassri on GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/ahmadnassri" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ahmad Nassri on Twitter</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mashape.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mashape - Powering API Driven Software</a></li> <li><a href="https://changelog.com/185/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kong, APIs, and Microservices with Ahmad Nassri - The Changelog</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ahmadnassri.com/blog/the-story-so-far-part-1/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Story So Far: My Journey (Part 1) - Ahmad Nassri</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ahmadnassri.com/blog/the-story-so-far-part-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Story So Far: My Journey (Part 2) - Ahmad Nassri</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ahmadnassri/restful-zend-framework" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ahmadnassri/restful-zend-framework - GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ahmadnassri/restconsole" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ahmadnassri/restconsole - GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="http://unirest.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unirest - Simplified, lightweight HTTP request client libraries in multiple languages</a></li> <li><a href="https://getgalileo.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Galileo - Build and Deliver Better APIs</a></li> <li><a href="https://gelato.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gelato.io - Super-Sweet Developer Portals</a></li> <li><a href="https://market.mashape.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mashape - Free API Management Platform &amp; Marketplace</a></li> <li><a href="https://luarocks.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LuaRocks - The Lua package manager</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.lua.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lua</a></li> <li><a href="https://openresty.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenResty - a fast web app server by extending nginx</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.oasis-open.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OASIS</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_service_specifications" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Web-service specifications - Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="http://javathehutt.blogspot.co.uk/2006/04/ws-deathstar-and-complexity-tradeoff.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Java The Hutt - WS-Deathstar and the complexity tradeoff</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/855282/what-is-meant-by-ws" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What is meant by WS-*?</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikechampion/archive/2007/05/01/reporting-for-duty-on-ws-deathstar.aspx?CommentPosted=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reporting for duty on WS-Deathstar</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1428661128" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WS-DeathStar - Flickr</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/mybuilder/kongfig" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mybuilder/kongfig - GitHub</a></li></ul>

83: Kong, the API/Microservice Management Layer with Ahmad Nassri