Reactive programming is an asynchronous programming paradigm concerned with data streams and the propagation of change. This means that it becomes possible to express static (e.g. arrays) or dynamic (e.g. event emitters) data streams with ease via the employed programming language(s). This talk by Tech Lead Ashan Dhanapala is focused on the Rx framework and
What is functional programming? A quick google search will define functional programming as: ”A programming paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data.” Today we will be diving into what exactly this means. Functional programming is nothing new. In fact, the foundations for functional programming was laid
Who is a full stack Quality Engineer? The term “full stack” is a widely-heard term, mostly associated with Software Engineering, but rarely in conjunction with Quality Engineering. So, what exactly is it, and why is it important? To understand this, let’s look at what traditional QA practice is. There are several areas and types
There is no argument that technology has changed our lives enormously over the last half century. It is also true that the pace of that change has accelerated over every decade in the same time frame. We should fully expect this change and acceleration to continue to happen in the future. As a business leader
Why Impromptu Speech? People always come across situations where they need to be able to deliver an impromptu speech with little or no advance notice. It can be a quick demo of a product to your clients, or a project status update to the upper management. Although these are ad-hoc situations require you to deliver
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.
