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.

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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 

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 cross-platform frameworks.

Xian Devon Wijesinghe, A Senior Software Engineer & Dharana Rodrigo the Host and a Trainee Software Engineer at 99x are taking the leap to talk about 

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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.

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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:

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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 follow the right norm, don’t miss this episode!

Host: Chamal Perera, Senior QA Lead, 99x

Speakers:

Pavithra Gunawardhana, QA Lead , 99x

Sohan De Silva, Senior QA Engineer, 99x

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 for E2E testing.

Host: Chamal Perera, Senior QA Lead, 99x

Speakers: 

Dilusha Rasangi Kumarage, Senior Lead - Software Quality Engineering, 99x

Roshika Gunarathne, Associate Quality Assurance Lead, 99x

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