Software Engineering Articles

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.

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 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.

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

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

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