Articles by Sysco LABS

In this episode of the Small Talk Series; Raj Miandad, Technical Lead from the CAKE Core team, talks about the 5 V’s of Big Data.

In this episode of the Small Talk Series, Daham Pathiraja Associate Technical Lead from the Operations Engineering team talks about SSH Tunelling.

In the 7th Episode of the Small Talk Series, Associate Tech Lead, Pasan Sumanathilake talks about Relational vs Graph Data Modeling.

Vithulan Vijayanandan from the Sysco LABS Operations Engineering team demonstrates how to setup “Hot-Warm” architecture for time series data using Elasticsearch. Additional resources: “Hot-Warm” Architecture: https://www.elastic.co/blog/hot-warm-architecture-in-elasticsearch-5-x Curator: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/installation.html

In the 6th episode of Small Talk, Manoj Fernando – Associate Software Architect talks about how SSL and HTTPS work. The episode covers: An Introduction into Secure Socket Layer (SSL) SSL record protocol operation SSL encryption through SSL Handshake & SSL actual data transfer

In this Sysco LABS Tutorial, Ashanthi Abeyrathna and Yasasi Abeysinghe teach us how to compress data in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with Avro Data Serialization. The tutorial will cover: What are Amazon Kinesis Data Streams? Data Serialization/ Avro Data Serialization

In this episode of Small Talk, Chinthaka Sandaruwan – Senior Technical Lead here at Sysco LABS speaks on Microservices and the pros and cons of using them.

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