Articles from 2019

Janith Bandara, Technical Lead at Sysco LABS talks about “The Story of Rest” in the 4th episode of Small Talk. He covers best practices, resources, methods and response codes in this quick session.

Its Java vs. Node JS in episode 3 of “Small Talk” with Geethanga Amarasinghe, Associate Software Architect taking us on an express journey through the good, the bad and the ugly of both technologies.

In the second episode of Small Talk, Associate Software Architect – Dishan Metihakwala speaks on how to write a good API.

Introducing “Small Talk” –  a new Sysco LABS series which is another knowledge sharing platform created to further encourage and foster a learning culture both within the organization and the industry. In the first episode, watch Senior Software Architect – Aruna Dissanayake explain how RDBMS Indexes work.

In this Sysco LABS Innovation Session, listen to a panel comprising of Hasitha Liyanage – Vice President – Engineering,  Udara Wijeratna – Senior Technical Lead and  Dishan Metihakwala – Associate Software Architect have an interesting dialog moderated by  Lahiru Karunatilake – Director – Engineering & Architecture about Pragmatic Programming, and what it means to be

In this Sysco LABS Innovation Session, Daham Pathiraja and Vithulan Vijayanandan specify the data requirements for a successful implementation of predictive support using machine learning through tools like Kibana.

Associate Quality Engineering Lead at Sysco LABS – Christina Thalayasingam returned to the Selenium Conference to speak on “Let’s take baby steps to security testing : don’t let those vulnerabilities choke your application”. The conference was held in London on the 7th and 8th of October 2019 and saw more than 400 Selenium developers & enthusiasts from

Written by: Ishara Madhavi – Intern Software Engineeing   Have you ever tried to read the logs from an app, web server or a system test? If you have, then you’d agree that it’s no easy task to understand the system behavior from reading these logs. If you’ve ever been reading these logs, and find

In this episode of the Sysco LABS Tutorials, Software Engineer – Deshani Geethika from the EAG team introduces you to Apache Spark – an opensource, distributed processing system usually used for big data worksheets. She also introduces you to the Spark Eco-system before teaching you how to set up a Spark job using Spark sequel.

Written by: Harith Sankalpa – Intern Software Engineeing SonarQube is an open-source platform developed by SonarSource for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities on 20+ programming languages. [Wikipedia] SonarQube platform consists of two main components. Sonar Scanner which scans your code

Agile software development preaches regular, and shorter release cycles. For cloud-based software, there are several deployment options. The non-docker based deployments need extensive infrastructure and ad-hoc tooling to cater to the need of agile deployments. Docker-based deployments with advanced orchestrators like Kubernetes support part of the agile deployment use-cases. It has been found that the

In this edition of Sysco LABS Tutorials, Sidath Asiri, Software Engineer from the Enterprise Architecture Group addresses OCR or Optical Character Recognition. The tutorial includes; – The main components of the OCR tool – Text detection – Character segmentation – Model construction – Creating a character recognition model with SVM – Demo using the Pytesseract