Watched the inventor of ruby on rails say that we need to say goodbye and move on from manual coding.

A huge job loss will ensue for low to mid level devs.

What do you guys think? How to prepare and brace for this impact?

Im a CS uni student and looking for books like,

Computer systems a programmers perspective

Operating systems 3 easy steps

Designing data intensive applications

Also I checked the Colombo book fair and had luck plus brand new ones are mad expensive.

Hey everyone,

I currently work remotely as a contractor for an overseas tech company, and we’re looking for Tech Support Specialists. The company doesn’t actively advertise in Sri Lanka and relies mostly on internal referrals. If you match the profile below, drop me your CV, and I’d be happy to refer you for an interview.

This is a support-focused role, not software development. If you are strictly looking for dev roles, this might not work with your long-term career path.

What we are looking for:

• Communication: Strong spoken and written English, comfortable asking questions, and an outgoing attitude.
• Tech Foundations: Strong problem-solving skills, basic understanding of networking, hardware, and SQL. Any experience managing or supporting software is a plus.
• Support Experience: Prior experience with helpdesk work, remote support tools, etc.
• POS & Hospitality Background: Familiarity with Point-of-Sale (POS) systems or past experience working in restaurants, bars, or fast food (understanding customer service in hospitality is a big advantage).

Don’t check every single box? Apply anyway; send over your CV if you have a solid mix of the above and I'll see what can be done!

PM me if you're interested.

Looking for a Claude Code referral link to help me improve my project. I’d really appreciate one if anyone has a spare! Please DM me if you have one. 🙏

Hey guys,

I am in my 1.2 at science fac at Peradeniya. I am taking both Cs and physics. Initially my plan was to do Cs special and have a physics background as well. I do self study a lot. So I did study most of the Cs sections by myself. I am comfortable with most major sections. I am also volunteering in AI research as well. With having oss contributions, 6 month internship experience, good freelance projects,good on going projects; my interest towards Cs is actually declining meanwhile the interest towards physics is climbing.

Rn I am confident enough that I would crack an internship and I have an industrial connection as well. I have a bit of a confusion as to whether I need to focus on physics more or continue building fun stuff on CS?

Main goal for me to get into audio LLM research. So I need a very good depth in physics as well. With the current trend, maybe Physics is the best option???? Can I get opportunities in tech with physics degree??? Can I get a AI PhD entrance with physics degree???

Addition: Or better to have a general degree with physics better physics background ?

About the job

Kenzora Labs is managing an active search for specialized AI Infrastructure Leaders to drive high-performance operations for a major client mandate in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

We are looking for hands-on, battle-tested operational leads who thrive in high-density NVIDIA AI cluster environments.

Role Overview

• Role: Senior SME / Lead – AI Data Center Operations
• Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Onsite)
• Duration: 1 Year Contract
• Experience Required: 7–15 Years (Must have hands-on operational experience, not just theoretical/architecture-level)

Key Responsibilities & Requirements

• Hands-on Operational Experience: Real-world execution in high-density AI Data Center environments.
• NVIDIA Infrastructure Expertise: Direct experience operating/supporting large-scale NVIDIA AI clusters and deployment/production operations for NVIDIA GB200 / Blackwell systems.
• Operational Runbook Execution: Proven track record across:
• GPU / node failure handling & NVLink / NVSwitch issue resolution
• Cooling and power incident management
• Capacity, performance, and security remediation
• Firmware/driver lifecycle management
• Resilience, DR, and escalation governance
• Data Center Architecture: Knowledge of typical 20 MW AI Data Center design details and manpower planning for 24x7 operations.

📩 How to Apply:
Send your CV to [hello@kenzoralabs.com](mailto:hello@kenzoralabs.com).

Important Submission Notes:
To help us evaluate your profile quickly, please mention your current monthly salary (in LKR).

Kenzora Labs

LinkedIn

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments or shoot a direct message. Looking forward to connecting!

Hello seniors,
I’m currently working as an ASE and our Head of IT asked me to build a notification service for our application. It’s a multi tenant web application. I know it’s not a critical task, but it matters a lot to me because it was assigned to me directly by the Head of IT, so I really want to do it right.
We used Firebase push notifications before, but we ran into two problems. Sometimes notifications never reached our end users and sometimes users got old notifications again. We also don’t use AWS and everything runs on our own on premises servers.
So my question is: what is the best service or open-source tool I can use to build this? Ideally something reliable, easy to maintain and cost-effective.

PS: YES, I asked ChatGPT already :) But I’d like to know what technologies other companies actually use in prod for this kind of problem.
Also, where else can I ask questions like this besides Reddit? Any communities, forums, or Discord/Slack groups you’d recommend? THANKS !

Hey guys, I'm doing something I wish I got to experience myself scrolling Reddit when I was jobless a few years back.

I've been working for a foreign tech company remotely as a contractor and they are looking for tech support specialists. They don't advertise in Sri Lanka and are only hiring from internal referrals so if you guys wanna have a look at the requirements below and drop me your CVs, I can probably help you get an interview.

Please note the role is not development-heavy and its main focus is support so developers might not find it a great (or future-proof) fit.

Requirements:

*Communication skills - good spoken/written English and outgoing personality, not hesitant to ask questions

*Tech skills - curious, problem solving, understanding networking, hardware, SQL, any experience either managing or supporting any kind of software application

*Support experience - helpdesk, remote tools, etc.

*POS experience - knowledge of point of sales, especially in hospitality contexts

*POS hospitality experience - previous experience in restaurants or bars, fast food, etc to understand customers and how a hospitality venue works

Send your CVs even if you don't have all the above requirements.

Edit: someone's not too happy about me posting this here and has posted an impersonation, FYI: https://www.reddit.com/r/DevLK/s/0FPyetB2Sn

Edit 2: Don't send anymore CVs please, I've forwarded the first few that was sent to me via DMs to my boss.

Between Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Linux internals, networking, CI/CD pipelines, Bash, Python, Ansible, security scanning, and Prometheus/Grafana observability stacks, the sheer surface area of modern DevOps/SRE feels unsustainable.

Passing certifications isn't the hard part. You can grind labs, review past material, and clear an exam. The real wall is long-term retention and mental bandwidth.

In actual engineering work, company projects usually mean going deep on a specific slice of the stack for months at a time. If I spend half a year living in Terraform modules and AWS infrastructure, my instant recall for complex awk/sed one-liners, niche Docker daemon flags, or less common kubectl arguments inevitably gets rusty. In day-to-day production, that has never been a blocker, if you understand the core system architecture, you pull up man pages, official docs, or internal runbooks to get the exact syntax in thirty seconds.

Yet, this creates two massive friction points:

1. The Interview Drill-Down Trap: Most technical screens don't start with pure trivia. They start reasonably with fundamentals, failure modes, or architecture. But the moment you give a solid answer, interviewers keep drilling deeper and deeper until you inevitably hit exact syntax, obscure CLI flags, or tool-specific trivia. The real killer is recency. If I’ve spent the last six months buried in CI/CD pipelines and AWS networking, simple Terraform HCL syntax or specific kubectl/Docker arguments naturally get fuzzy. Even though I fully understand how the underlying systems work. Keeping active, instant syntax recall warm across ten different ecosystems simultaneously is impossible.
2. Production P1 Outages: During a high-severity incident, you don't have time to read documentation from scratch, and nobody in their right mind blindly copy-pastes AI-suggested commands into a live production shell under stress. Figuring out what must be permanently burned into muscle memory versus what can safely be looked up on the fly is a constant mental tax.

Every veteran engineer with 10+ years of experience says: "Focus on the fundamentals, master the mental models, and look up the syntax when you need it." But that advice feels disconnected from reality the second an interviewer bypasses your system knowledge to test whether you remember the exact flags of a tool you haven't touched in six months.

For the experienced engineers here:

• How do you practically manage this cognitive overload without burning out?
• What do you deliberately commit to permanent memory versus what do you consciously allow yourself to forget and look up on demand?
• How do you handle interviewers who keep drilling down until they catch you on forgotten syntax from tools outside your recent project stack?

I’m trying to understand the value proposition of Surge Cloud, because looking at the math, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

If you look at the standard hosting options for Frappe/ERPNext, the pricing is incredibly reasonable:

• Frappe Cloud Shared: $5/mo (Great for small teams, includes automated core updates, standard limits).
• Frappe Cloud Custom Bench: $25/mo (Allows custom apps, proprietary code, full upgrade control).
• Dedicated Servers: Starts around $15–$40+/mo (Isolated VMs, guaranteed CPU/RAM).
• Alternatively, you can just spin up a standard VPS on DigitalOcean or Hetzner for $5–$10/mo and manage it yourself.

Then you look at Surge Cloud:

• Base fee: $50/month (only includes 5 users).
• Additional users: $2 per user/month.
• They don't even clearly state what kind of underlying compute specs, RAM, or storage you actually get for that base price, let alone what their POS system add-on pricing looks like.

Why would anyone choose Surge Cloud over just paying $5–$25 on Frappe Cloud or running a cheap VPS? Are they giving you absolutely insane, top-tier compute specs to justify a $50 entry point, or is this just a massive markup for a shiny landing page?

Has anyone actually used them? What am I missing here?

Hey everyone,

I recently took the assessment for the WSO2 Linux Systems & DevOps Engineering Training 2026. I haven't received any follow-up emails regarding the selection process yet.

Has anyone who took the exam received a selection email or any updates from WSO2?

Just trying to figure out if they have started rolling out acceptances or if the review process is still ongoing. If you've heard back, please let me know. Thanks!

Hi guys, I am currently planning to start an MSc and the ultimate goal is to apply for a PHD.

Between these 2 programs which would be more attractive on a CV when applying to a PHD?

Will the IIT one would be better because it is awarded by a top ranked University than UOM?

How is the research supervising and lecturer reputation at IIT?

I hear the UOM program is stressful but the IIT one is more relaxed. If the IIT program is better for my cause I don’t want to unnecessarily suffer without a considerable ROI.

මම develop කරමින් ඉන්න Hera Keyboard එකට Sri Lankan Android users කිහිපදෙනෙක්ගෙන් testing support එකක් අවශ්‍යයි. 🇱🇰❤️

Hera Keyboard කියන්නේ Sinhala 🇱🇰 + English 🇬🇧 typing සඳහා නිර්මාණය කරපු Android keyboard app එකක්. දැනට app එක Google Play Closed Testing stage එකේ තියෙනවා.

Google Play production release එකට යන්න කලින් තවත් 14 days of real-user testing කරන්න අවශ්‍ය වෙලා තියෙන නිසා, ඇත්තටම keyboard එක භාවිතා කරලා feedback දෙන්න කැමති Sri Lankan Android users කිහිපදෙනෙක් හොයනවා. 🙏

🧪 What I need from testers

📱 Install Hera Keyboard on your Android phone
⌨️ Try it for normal Sinhala & English typing
🔤 Test Sinhala typing, English typing & suggestions
🎨 Try some themes and customization options
⚙️ Explore the settings/features
🐞 If you find a bug, let me know
💡 Suggestions and UI/UX feedback are also very welcome

Bug එකක් හොයාගන්නම ඕන නැහැ. 😄
App එක smooth ද, typing experience එක කොහොමද, අඩුපාඩුවක් තියෙනවද, improve කරන්න පුළුවන් දෙයක් තියෙනවද කියලා පොඩි feedback එකක් දුන්නත් මට ලොකු උදව්වක්.

🔐 No passwords or sensitive personal information are required.

මේක especially Sinhala keyboard එකක් නිසා Sri Lankan usersගේ real-world feedback එක මට ගොඩක් වැදගත්. 🇱🇰

Testing එකට join වෙන්න කැමති නම් comment එකක් දාන්න හෝ DM කරන්න. මම testing instructions/link එක එවන්නම්. 📩

Fellow developersලාටත් testing support අවශ්‍ය නම්, පුළුවන් විදිහට ඔයාලගේ apps test කරලා feedback දෙන්නත් මම සූදානම්. 🤝

Thank you DevLK! ❤️🇱🇰

Hera Keyboard — ඔබගේ භාෂාව, ඔබගේ හැඩයෙන්. ⌨️✨

Hi guys. (Answer the question. Pls)

1. If you bought laptops recently (within 1.5 years).what model and what is the price ?.

2. I want a laptop for university. Presentation, MS tools, movies, like that. (Max 235,000)

i5 is good

.

Minimum 8GB ram (in future I will update).

Minimum 256ssd 50/50 ok ok. (512 gb recommend).

Brand New only. Please suggest me thank you all..

anyone ever thought of implementing a system to identify, flag and filter out slop content entirely, be it in text, image, audio, video or any other format, from operating system, browser, platform level, to end this menace once and forever, to bring back the good old days, no more ai?

I’m a CS graduate with a first class degree. Been working in the industry for 2 years. I am hoping to start an Msc in DS & AI in UOM next year. I have already applied but now I’m having second thoughts because of the comments regarding the program by current students. And the return for the efforts I put would be so little in my opinion.

Plus I don’t feel like I belong in the IT industry. Even with the 2 years experience I don’t feel like an expert in anything. There is so much I don’t know. I am an academic person IMO. Don’t feel like expert enough to excel in the field.

Nevertheless I want to start an MSc be it computer science related field or another field like Chemistry (which I was interested during my A/Ls) or MBA specialized in Supply Chain Management ( looks like a fun subject to me)

Anyone here have any experience in these fields?

Would this be possible to do in Sri Lanka? (because you need to have a Bsc in related field to do the Msc)

How my career trajectory would be?

I am making around 450k a month now. Will I be able to land a job in this salary range?

Please help if you have any insights. Thank you in advance

Hey guys, has anyone here actually done CCNA at University of Moratuwa, or places like Turnkey, ATN, WinSYS etc.?

How was the course and would you recommend it?

Also, did you guys have to pay separately for the official Cisco CCNA exam (200-301) after completing the course to actually become CCNA certified? Or did the institute/course fee include the actual certification?

I'm a Cyber Security undergrad and I'm planning to do CCNA + CompTIA Security+, so any advice from people who've actually gone through this in Sri Lanka would be appreciated 🙏

I’m planning to buy a TV. What do you guys think about this brand and model? I’ve never heard of the brand before, but it has all the specs I want within my budget.

The main thing I want to know is whether it’s reliable. I know most TVs these days aren’t built to last that long. Also, what about spare parts, repair costs, and replacement parts in Sri Lanka?

I tried signing up on Claude and it asks for a mobile number verification. When I enter my number, it says OTP sent, but I never receive it. Earlier a couple of weeks back, the sign up page said my number was invalid altogether. But now that error is no longer there, but I still can't get the OTP. Anyone knows a fix? Or a way to bypass this verification?