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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

From pre-historic Nomads who followed their food, to inventing the wheel and creating implements used for cooking and the emergence of “Restaurants” as we know them, the concept of “Dining” has spanned the Centuries. In this Innovation Session, Gavin Alexander, Associate Manager – Delivery takes you on a journey through foodservice; Starting with a trip

Written By: Deshani Geethika – Sysco LABS EAG R&D Team  Where does Regression come in Machine Learning? The following chart describes the main categorization of ML Types of Machine Learning [1] If you are completely new to ML, supervised learning is where a labeled dataset is provided for the model in the training phase. So, according

Software Engineer Pivithuru Amarasinghe who works with the Sysco LABS R&D Team conducts this tutorial on the Trellis Framework. The tutorial includes; – An Introduction into the Food Supply Chain – Technical Detail about Trellis – What is OADA – Single Node Setup: Token Generation & Scope Selection – Multi-Node Setup Watch the full video

Written By: Pivithuru Amarasinghe – Sysco LABS EAG R&D Team  The food supply chain has gone through a lot of change within the past few years. Today, most large scale food suppliers introduce new technology into their supply chains in order to obtain on-time supply of food products and deliver high-quality products. However, in today’s world,