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With vaccines now being rolled out across the world, there is now light at the end of tunnel and the worst of the pandemic could be over in the ensuing months. Organizations will need to take into consideration the multitude of factors outlined above and determine the work arrangements that best suit them. Many business leaders question the merits of this non-traditional workforce model; an understanding of the pitfalls of working from home and the judicious implementation of appropriate strategies to negate the ill-effects will enable the best of both worlds.

It is important to note that the design should constantly evolve along with the requirements elicitation process. Software engineers must review the design with actual business users and progressively enhance the design to avoid any mismatch between the requirement specification (Agile Story) and the actual software.

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.