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.
Deepal Jayasekera from the Payments team at Sysco LABS talks about NPM and Web Security at the recently held security meetup. His session covers the importance of NodeJS security, how NPM has become a security risk and all it’s vulnerabilities, and what you can do about it. You can watch the full session below:
“The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months.” – Gordon Moore. It seems that Moore’s Law has finally become redundant. The size of transistors is now so prohibitively small (the smallest on record is 5nm), that it is becoming less and less efficient to manufacture them to successfully continue along
The American Chamber of Commerce in Sri Lanka will conduct a luncheon meeting next week with two speakers hailing from Silicon Valley on emerging technologies and their impact on local businesses. The event is titled ‘Evolution of Silicon Valley tech companies and how it impacts you’. The two speakers are Mani Kulasooriya, founder of Sysco
In this Innovation Session, Rohana Kumara, Vice President – Engineering and Architecture talks about going 100% Serverless and covers AWS Lambda, building microservices and BFFs in serverless, and common misconceptions and fears when adopting the framework.
Deepal Jayasekara, Senior Software Engineer at Sysco LABS spoke about “Lessons from Production: NodeJS Applications” What distinguishes NodeJS from any other programming platforms is how it handles I/O. We hear this all the time when NodeJS is introduced by someone: “A non-blocking, event-driven platform based on Google’s v8 Javascript engine”. What does this mean? What
Hasitha Liyanage, Director – Technology and Architecture at Sysco LABS talks about creativity and the tools you need to employ in order to be a better thinker.
In this session, Dilhan Manawadu, Director – Quality Engineering and Process at Sysco LABS explores the idea of leadership and the attributes that make a true leader.
By: Nusry Ahmed My first week at Sysco Labs was mainly about familiarizing myself with the staff and the company premises. All the teams eagerly presented their roles and responsibilities within the company and gave us an overview of how they work together as a team. There were also various introductory sessions which were carried
By: Tamasha Malepathirana An internship is a platform to break out of our shells and experience the real world of work that awaits us in our prospective career fields. Like everyone else, the internship for me was not an alien concept, but was novel enough to be quite enticing and frightening at the same
Microservices is a hot (and a hotly debated) topic. Asiri Liyanage, Senior Software Architect at Sysco Labs, speaks about what it means to adopt Microservices in an organization and how to decide if it’s the right fit for you. In the below video, he walks us through the following topics: Common architectural patterns Growing pains –
