Software Engineering Articles

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

Senior Software Engineer Gayan Pathirana from our Customer Experience (CX) team takes us through the fundamentals of how to use Nginx as a Reverse Proxy and implement high performance URL caching with Memcached in this Sysco LABS Tutorial. The tutorial covers; – Creating an example application with NodeJs – Installing Nginx via the OpenResty bundle on Ubuntu

How do you carry out a software upgrade for thousands of hardware devices deployed in the field, without disrupting the businesses that use them? This was the problem the team faced back in 2016. A dearth in external tools meant they had to look inwards, and build something of their own. In this discussion we

Nilupa Kiringoda – Senior Director for Delivery in the Sysco LABS Customer Experience (CX) vertical – discusses the path that led him to Sysco LABS and where he is today. He explains the seamless digital flow that the CX team has developed which  has revolutionized the entire journey of Sysco’s customers whilst keeping true to the spirit

UI/UX Lead at Sysco LABS Roshan Wettesinghe conducts this Tutorial on using Web Components. The tutorial covers the following areas; – What are Web Components – The anatomy of a Web Component – Implementing a basic Web Component – Advantages of Web Components   Watch the full video below;

Sudheera Lakmal from the Sysco LABS Cloud Services Team conducts this series of training sessions on Amazon Web Services and does a hands-on practical on how to build infrastructure such as a Virtual Private Cloud and Virtual Machinery. Part 1 includes; 1. AWS Basics and Theory – Why Amazon Cloud? – Traditional vs Cloud – Key Terms –

Dileka Madushan – Software Engineer from the Sysco LABS Customer Experience team – takes us through an Introduction to Golang in this Sysco LABS Tutorial. The demo includes; – Advantages of Go – Outline of a simple program – Writing custom function – Data types of Go – Introduction to Structs – Introduction to Pointers

Pravinda Perera works in the Sysco Delivery Team as a Senior Software Engineer. In this edition of Sysco LABS Profiles, he talks to us about the start of his journey here at Sysco LABS and the incredible learning opportunities he has been afforded. Pravinda emphasizes on the ability to both Research and Develop whilst using the latest

Milindu Kumarage – Software Engineer at Sysco LABS – conducts this tutorial on Optimizing Production Docker Images. The demo includes; – Usage of .dockerignore – Using Alpine Images – Docker Multistage Builds – Other Best Practices Watch the full video below;  

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