Software Engineering Articles

In this episode of the Small Talk series, Sajeeva Lakmal, Database Lead from the CAKE Core team, talks about how to Optimize SQL queries.

In this episode of the Small Talk Series, Sanjaya Amarasinghe – Technical Lead at Sysco LABS, talks about Garbage Collection Methods in JavaScript.

In this episode of Small Talk, Rajind Ruparathna of the CAKE Core team, talks about the What’s, How’s and Why’s in Java Garbage Collection.

In this episode, Kasun Udalagama –  Associate Technical Specialist from the Cloud Services Team, talks about how S3 Supports Unlimited Storage.

“Find your passion, learn, experiment, make mistakes and work towards excelling in it.”   We spoke with Rashindrie Perera, a former Sysco LABS intern turned employee and one of the recipients of the prestigious “Migara Ranatunga Trust Award” which recognizes the best achievers in the semester 6 industrial training module offered by the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka

In this Episode of the Small Talk Series, Eshan Sudharaka – Technical Lead at Sysco LABS takes a look at WebSockets and Server Sent events.

In this episode of the Small Talk Series, Daham Pathiraja Associate Technical Lead from the Operations Engineering team talks about SSH Tunelling.

Vithulan Vijayanandan from the Sysco LABS Operations Engineering team demonstrates how to setup “Hot-Warm” architecture for time series data using Elasticsearch. Additional resources: “Hot-Warm” Architecture: https://www.elastic.co/blog/hot-warm-architecture-in-elasticsearch-5-x Curator: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/installation.html

In the 6th episode of Small Talk, Manoj Fernando – Associate Software Architect talks about how SSL and HTTPS work. The episode covers: An Introduction into Secure Socket Layer (SSL) SSL record protocol operation SSL encryption through SSL Handshake & SSL actual data transfer

In this Sysco LABS Tutorial, Ashanthi Abeyrathna and Yasasi Abeysinghe teach us how to compress data in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with Avro Data Serialization. The tutorial will cover: What are Amazon Kinesis Data Streams? Data Serialization/ Avro Data Serialization

In this episode of Small Talk, Chinthaka Sandaruwan – Senior Technical Lead here at Sysco LABS speaks on Microservices and the pros and cons of using them.

Janith Bandara, Technical Lead at Sysco LABS talks about “The Story of Rest” in the 4th episode of Small Talk. He covers best practices, resources, methods and response codes in this quick session.