Xamarin is a cross-platform app development framework that allows developers to create native mobile applications for iOS, Android, and Windows using a shared codebase written in C#. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2016 and is now part of the Visual Studio development environment. The Final episode of "Appsolute Beginnings" is brought to you by Xian Warsha Kiringoda, Software Engineer and Host Dharana Rodrigo. Keep up with our podcast releases by following 99x on social media!

Flutter is a free, open-source framework for building high-performance, visually attractive, and natively compiled mobile, web, and desktop applications from a single codebase. The Dart programming language provides an intuitive and reactive programming model for building user interfaces and enables developers to create expressive and responsive apps with ease.  This podcast with Xian Savindu Bandara - Software Engineer and Host Dharana Rodrigo will cover  Why you should use Flutter Its...

React Native is an open-source framework for building mobile applications that allow developers to use React, a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces, to create native mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms. It was created by Facebook in 2015 and has since gained widespread adoption among developers due to its ability to build high-quality mobile apps with a single codebase. React Native apps are compiled into native code, providing performance benefits compared to other...

Managing resources is a hectic task. Providing security adds more burden to that.  But if you are working with Azure, you can use cutting-edge tooling and services provided by Azure to reduce the burden significantly. Indunil Withana - Associate Tech Lead at 99x with Nishara Ramasinghe brings his expertise on Azure management and security solutions that can be used when managing and securing Azure resources on this final episode of Navigating the Azure cloud. Stay tuned for more podcast...

Queue-based message delivery in Azure can be a great way to connect components in a serverless system architecture. In the 3rd episode of the Xians navigating across the Azure Clouds, we will be talking about messaging-based queues in Azure mainly with regards to storage queues and service bus along with the pros and cons and different use cases of each service brought to you by Vihanga Bandara - an Associate Tech lead at 99x alongside with our host Nishara Ramasinghe.

Using Microsoft Azure to develop image-based solutions is a great way to rapidly get an idea to fruition within a limited timeframe.  Within this episode of Navigating the Azure cloud, Nethmal Warusamana - A Senior Software Engineer at 99x, and Nishara Ramasinghe will be exploring some existing image-based solutions which Azure provides as services, making it easier to build a complete solution without having much expertise in developing such a solution from scratch.

On the First episode of the Xians Navigating their way through the Clouds of Azure, Anushka Dissanayake, A Senior Tech Lead from 99x alongside our Host for this series, Nishara Ramasinghe a Software Engineer at 99x Introduces you to Azure SQL Databases and Pricing models and also talks about: How to migrate the existing SQL Server to Azure SQL Single Instance or Azure SQL managed instance. Monitoring tools and a basic overview about the Azure SQL solutions currently in market. For more...

Nothing upsets development teams more than frantic application troubleshooting and patching overnight. Nothing upsets business people more than performance issues leading to lost revenue. Have you ever thought about why these performance issues still play around even though you conduct a thorough performance test once at the initial stage? Have you ever thought you missed the most important standard in performance testing? The solution is simple and straightforward! If you want to be sure you...

Protractor was created in 2013 when AngularJS was the most popular web framework. Back then Protractor was the most visible option for writing E2E automation tests for AngularJS Applications. The ecosystem around JavaScript technologies has been changing continuously, with new tools emerging that afford automation testers with more modern options for writing tests. In this podcast, we'll give you reasons and ways to migrate from Protractor to Cypress since it's one of the best alternatives...

In this episode, we are talking about the core of exploratory testing where we go in-depth on how exploratory testing going to be different from our day-to-day scripted testing, when & why we should use exploratory testing and more importantly the challenges we faced while practicing it. Host: Chamal Perera, Senior QA Lead, 99x Speakers: Vindhya Fernando, Quality Assurance Lead

It is important that you achieve optimum test results while conducting software testing without deviating from the goal. But how do you determine that you are following the right strategy for testing? For that, you need to stick to some basic testing principles. In this podcast, we will be discussing the seven common testing principles that are widely practiced in the software industry. Host: Chamal Perera, Senior QA Lead, 99x Speakers:  Achini Rathnayake, Senior Quality Assurance...

Agile software development requires fast feedback from testing. Unit tests are one of the most important tests among different testing levels and can return quick results compared with other tests. Although QA testers are not involved in unit testing, they should understand what it is to define effective and efficient testing strategies. This podcast will give the audience a QA perspective on Unit testing. Host: Chamal Perera, Senior QA Lead, 99x Speaker: Ruwanthi Soysa, Associate...

Is it hard for you to start performance testing in your software products? Our experts with decades of testing experience will help you to start with performance testing in a way that you’ve probably never tried before. If you want to be sure you get right step to learn performance testing, don’t miss this episode! Host: Tharindra Jayamaha, Quality Assurance Manager@99x Speakers: Aradhana Liyanage Lead Test Automation@99x Pavithra Gunawardhana Associate Quality Assurance Lead@99x

This episode discusses the basics of security testing. Therefore, the audience can get a good understanding of security testing and its related topics. Host: Tharindra Jayamaha, Quality Assurance Manager@99x Speaker: M. Srikantharuban Quality Assurance Lead@99x

This episode is on basic things that need to be considered when starting test automation in a project. We discuss what test automation is and why it is important, what should be the initial step if we are starting automation in a project, and some other interesting points. Host: Tharindra Jayamaha, Quality Assurance Manager@99x Speaker: Harshani Wickramaarachchi, Associate QA Lead@99x

This session includes the importance of software testing, general testing practices, and different types of testing used in the software development life cycle. Host: Tharindra Jayamaha, Quality Assurance Manager@99x Speakers:  Pivithuru Gunawickrama, Associate QA Lead@99x Sameera Palansooriya, Associate QA Lead @99x 

In this first episode of this brand-new QA podcast series, we are talking about everything related to quality assurance. Our host Tharindra Jayamaha along with Chamal Asela Perera will be speaking on some fundamentals of QA, the latest trending in QA field, and how to involve developers in testing (Yes! You read it right)

Want to know about a tool that can speed up the developers' work while significantly improving the communication with UI designers and QA from the initial stages of the software development process? Tune in to find out how you can use Storybook to achieve just that! Host: Vihanga Bandara, Software Enginner @ 99x Speakers: Bihan De Silva, Trainee Software Engineer @ 99x Thank you for tuning in. Follow our channel for new tech-related podcasts every Thursday!

This episode discusses about the usability and the advantages of using Redux with a React App. Host: Heshan Jayasinghe, Associate Technical Lead @ 99x Speakers: Gangesh Rajkumar, Software Engineer @ 99x Thank you for tuning in. Follow our channel for new tech-related podcasts every Thursday!

In this episode we discuss everything you need to know about react hooks in ReactJS. Host: Heshan Jayasinghe, Associate Technical Lead @ 99x Speakers: Gangesh Rajkumar, Software Engineer @ 99x Thank you for tuning in. Follow our channel for new tech-related podcasts every Thursday!

In this episode we discuss what are the essential concepts that every developer should know in ReactJS. Host: Chinthaka Dasanayake, Associate Technical Architect @ 99x Speakers: Isuru Wickramasinghe, Associate Tech Lead @ 99x Thank you for tuning in. Follow our channel for new tech-related podcasts every Thursday!

In this episode, we discuss why ReactJS is the most popular JavaScript library for developing fast, scalable, and interactive user interfaces. Host: Chinthaka Dasanayake, Associate Technical Architect @ 99x Speakers: Isuru Wickramasinghe, Associate Tech Lead @ 99x Thank you for tuning in. Follow our channel for new tech-related podcasts every Thursday!

We are back with another series of Tea N Tech podcasts! This time it is all about Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This is the final GIS podcast session, From this you will be able to learn what are the different technologies use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to create, manage, analyse and visualize spatial data. Host: Sashini Hettiarachchi, Software Engineer @ 99x Speakers: Sachin Madhushanka, Software Engineer @ 99x Thank you for tuning in. Follow our channel for new...

We are back with another series of Tea N Tech podcasts! This time it is all about Geographic Information Systems (GIS). If you are curious about GIS tune into the latest 99x podcasts to learn more about GIS. This is a second GIS podcast session, From this you will be able to learn what are the different applications of GIS. Host: Sashini Hettiarachchi, Software Engineer @ 99x Speakers: Sachin Madhushanka, Software Engineer @ 99x Thank you for tuning in. Follow our channel for new...