Earlier this year, Applebee’s – a bar and grill restaurant in the US – was hacked. This panel discussion examines the causes and affects of such a breach from multiple angles, and the possible measures that can be taken to prevent a breach from occurring, and what to do if it does.
Earlier this year, Applebee’s – a bar and grill restaurant in the US – was hacked. This panel discussion examines the causes and affects of such a breach from multiple angles, and the possible measures that can be taken to prevent a breach from occurring, and what to do if it does.
Thiwanka Wimalasuriya speaks at the IEEE IAS Sri Lanka Chapter on grid 2.0 – an updated version of the power grid that uses solar and wind to generate power – and the challenges of adopting this technology in Sri Lanka. Full session:
DevOps is a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The main characteristic of the DevOps movement is to strongly advocate automation and monitoring at all steps of software construction, from integration, testing, releasing to deployment and infrastructure management. DevOps aims at shorter development cycles, increased deployment frequency, more dependable releases, in close alignment with business objectives. This
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Malinga Perera from the Sysco LABS Data and Analytics team talks about Distributed Computing including ETL Frameworks and Apache Storm as an ETL Tool. Watch full video, below:
In this Innovation Session, Keet Sugathadasa delves deep into cyber security and talks in detail about security best practices, analyzing and breaking encryption schemes, hacking and how it plays out within the Sri Lankan legal system. Watch full video below:
Our operations engineering team handles the development of tools such as Pulse Assist, to help our support teams perform to their maximum potential. They’re working on some cool new features such as being able to analyse information from support calls and past issues, making smarter suggestions as to the potential causes of problems, and providing
In this Innovation Session, Priyath Gregory and Sandaruwan Nanayakkara from Sysco LABS deconstructs bitcoins and blockchain technology in order to investigate and explore the two ideas as independent entities. They start the session by walking the audience through the different systems – from centralized to distributed to the decentralized peer system that is blockchain. Then they dive deeper
In this session, Vice President – Engineering at Sysco LABS, Hiranya Samarasekera provides valuable insights about decision making, leadership and managing oneself. In ‘Smart Decision Making’, he covers common traps which include the sunk cost fallacy; and estimating and forecasting traps such as the recall-ability bias, before moving on to big decision making, and how
There is no argument that technology has changed our lives enormously over the last half century. It is also true that the pace of that change has accelerated over every decade in the same time frame. We should fully expect this change and acceleration to continue to happen in the future. As a business leader
As an organization grows, there is an increasing need for engineers with leadership qualities in management positions. In this session, Rohana Kumara, VP Engineering and Architecture at Sysco LABS talks about how to transform from an engineer to an engineering manager.
Kalinga Dissanayake who is a part of the Platform and ReportsNG teams at Sysco LABS talks about cloud computing, where he covers cloud deployment models, platform as a service, software as a service, containerization, and serverless computing at the IEEE Techno Meetup 2017.
