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Vice President of Engineering at Sysco LABS Hiranya Samarasekera was invited as the keynote speaker for the 2nd International Conference on Business Research (ICBR) 2019 organized by the Business Research Unit of the Faculty of Business at University of Moratuwa. The theme for the conference this year was “Calibrating the modern day businesses through data

Senior Software Engineer Hasitha Shan introduces us to React Hooks on this edition of Sysco LABS Tutorials. The demo covers; – An introduction to React Hooks using useState – Building a simple to-do app using useState hook Watch the full tutorial below;

Associate Manager (Business Consulting) Jeremy Carvalho recently conducted an Innovation Session on “Food at Your Convenience”. The session covered many interesting areas of the current food ordering and delivery landscape such as; – The Global Food Delivery Market – Market Share & Players in the USA – The Millennial Effect – Ordering Channels – Online

UI/UX Lead Roshan Wettesinghe conducts this Sysco LABS Tutorial on Styling React Components. The tutorial covers; – Different Ways to Style React Components – Drawbacks of using Inline Styles and CSS – Demo on the use of Styled Components including; i. How to create styled components ii. How to use tag template literals iii. Styling

When the US Library of Congress ranked history’s most important innovations, it gave a foremost place to the printing press. While the mechanics behind the printing press weren’t far more sophisticated than the other machines of its era, the consequences of its invention were world changing; finally, mankind had a means for the mass distribution

Sysco LABS’ Christina Thalayasingam was invited to speak at the 2nd day of the Perf Guild Conference which was streamed live on the 9th of April 2019. Christina spoke on the topic “Tips and Tricks of Using JMeter” touching on how JMeter is a popular tool which is used by many for Performance and API

On part two of an Introduction to Machine Learning (ML), Deshani Geethika and Isham Mohamed from the Sysco LABS R&D Team discusses how to put ML theories into practice to solve an actual problem end to end. The tutorial covers; – Understanding the Dataset – Data Visualization – Data Pre-processing – Feature Engineering – Applying

Nithila Vithanage – Senior Software Engineer at Sysco LABS – is giving us an insight on how to quickly set up an ETL using Talend on this episode of Sysco LABS Tutorials. The tutorial covers; – How to read data from database using Talend – Writing data to database using Talend – Transforming data within

Speaking on this edition of Sysco LABS Profiles, Shayne Weerakoon – who works with the BT Studio team as a Software Engineer – says the level of quality required by Sysco in the work that is done, has greatly helped him in excelling as a developer as optimal results are always essential. He talks about the continuous learning

Senior Software Engineer from the Sysco LABS’ CAKE Core team – Binujaya Padmakumara – speaks to us about how he has been exposed to a variety of technologies during his time here and how that learning has helped him with tackling the challenges that have come his way. He also elaborates on the work being

Malinda Wijegunawardene [Manager – UI Engineering], Buddhika Raveendra [UI Lead] and Abhiman Ranaweera [Associate Specialist – UI Engineering] from the Sysco LABS UI/UX Team, discuss the role of Design systems as part of Accelerated UI Development. The video includes; – The importance of quick UI delivery and extensibility of the designs for fast paced development

In the first of a two-part tutorial on Machine Learning (ML), Sidath Asiri and Pivithuru Amarasinghe from our R&D Team, introduces us to the concept of ML and discusses some of the fundamental areas that new users should be aware of. The tutorial covers; – What is Machine Learning? – Types of Machine Learning – Terminology