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In this episode of Sysco LABS Tutorials, Ashan Tharindu, Senior Software Engineer tackles the topic of using Completablefuture to write asynchronous tasks in Java​. He starts by introducing the concept of Asynchronous programming and Completablefuture and then does a quick refresh on multi-threading techniques before diving deeper into how to use Completablefuture and multi-threading together.

For the Agile 20 Year anniversary, Sysco LABS along with the Agile 20 Reflect Festival organized a panel discussion on a Pragmatic Agile: From Pitfalls to Pragmatism. This discussion featured leaders from all aspects of engineering, from Delivery to Engineering to Product.

In this Sysco LABS Innovation session, Isham Mohamed - Senior Software Engineer from the Enterprise Architecture Group' R&D team speaks about MVVM or Model View ViewModel - an architectural pattern used in Mobile Application Development.

Sithija, Malshan, Gothami, Pasindu and Piyumi conduct this Sysco LABS Innovation Session titled "Disaster Recovery in Cloud". The team covers areas like Cloud Disasters, Why Recovery practices are necessary along with some conventional and non-conventional recovery methods.

This year, communities around the country have faced financial and health and safety issues due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. To minimize the number of people who would go hungry during the festive season, Sysco LABS Sri Lanka introduced the “Share a meal. Share a moment” initiative which would seek to provide warm meals, prepared in clean kitchens following health and safety guidelines to communities in need – in and around Colombo.

Pradja Dolewatte - Senior Manager, Process at Sysco LABS tackles a rather tricky aspect of process management, especially in the current volatile climate - getting everyone on to the same page fast.

In his presentation at the annual Perf Guild conference; Mohamed Rifad – Senior QE Lead at Sysco LABS speaks about the JMeter API and how you can use automation code for performance testing.

As the country continues to face the COVID-19 pandemic, Sysco LABS has been looking at ways to assist our health officials as they combat the virus. We have been able to provide support through medical equipment donations to the Base Hospital Homagama, PPE Kits to the Colombo National Hospital and washing machines to the Colombo South Teaching Hospital (CSTH) to help with the increased strain.

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a great deal of vulnerabilities in our world and our way of life that we never imagined we had. But in this time, technology has revealed itself to be an invaluable tool to help us to continue to meet our basic needs even as we stay home and socially distanced. Whether it is e-education for our kids, tools to help us work from home, or services that allow us to get the products that we need to survive, our reliance on technology has deepened during the pandemic, and it has accelerated the technology takeover.

Meuru Muthuthanthri, Technical Lead from the CAKE Core team talks about Threads vs Processes in this episode of the Small Talk series.

Viduni Wikramarachchi, Ishan Madhusanka & Indumini De Silva from the CX team conduct a Sysco LABS Innovation Session on Building Modern React JS Applications. The session also features a quick peek into the latest set of React 16 Features!

In this episode of the Small Talk Series, Shoba Bandara, Project Manager from the Sysco LABS CAKE Core team talks about “Writing Good User Stories”. She speaks on the challenges faced when planning releases within teams and offers solutions and techniques that can be used to overcome these issues.