IT news September 2: a ranking of the highest paid programming languages has been compiled, the State Duma wants to limit Apple’s monopoly in the application market, more and more Java developers are switching to Kubernetes
Freelance exchange Upwork has compiled a rating of the highest paying programming languages
The freelance order placement exchange Upwork has compiled the 15 highest-paying programming languages for IT specialists. For the analysis, we took the average hourly rate in projects posted on Upwork.com. Objective-C turned out to be the highest paying language: fulfilling an order in it is estimated at an average of $66 per hour. At a full-time 40-hour week, this equates to an annual income of over $137,000 (before taxes). Java jobs average $58 per hour on Upwork. The entire rating looks like this:
Objective-C ($66)
Golang ($64)
Windows PowerShell ($62)
Excel VBA ($60)
Kotlin ($60)
VB.NET ($59)
Ruby ($59)
Java ($58)
Swift ($56)
C# ($56)
ASP.NET ($56)
C++ ($55)
SQL ($54)
Python ($53)
C ($52)
The top three among highly paid programming languages in terms of growth compared to last year (in terms of the volume of contracts on the platform) were also identified. The first place was taken by the SQL language (an increase of 152%), the second and third places were shared by the Java and Ruby languages (127%). Source: TechRepublic
GitHub introduced the beta version of Container Registry
Team development service GitHub has introduced a public beta version of the GitHub Container Registry. During beta testing, use of the tool will be free for all private clients. Container Registry makes it easy to publish Docker containers using GitHub Actions. This is very important for the service, since Docker is currently the second most popular ecosystem in GitHub Packages after npm. More information about the new GitHub Container Registry tool can be found on the GitHub corporate blog . Source: GitHub
Microsoft introduced two new technologies to combat deepfakes
Microsoft has developed two new tools to combat artificially simulated deepfake videos, in which a person's face is superimposed on an unrelated video. The first tool was Microsoft Video Authenticator. Its algorithms can determine the authenticity of a photo or video by “detecting where deepfake blends with fine pixels of faded or gray color.” Human vision hardly distinguishes such details. Video Authenticator is built using a publicly available dataset from Face Forensic++ and tested on the DeepFake Detection Challenge dataset. These are two leading models for training and testing deepfake detection technologies. The second technology is an as-yet-unnamed tool for embedding a digital identifier into content metadata. It allows you to detect changes in photos or videos. Source: Microsoft
A bill to limit Apple's monopoly in the application market has been introduced to the State Duma
State Duma deputy from A Just Russia Fyodor Tumusov introduced a bill that obliges owners of operating systems not to prohibit the installation of third-party application stores. In addition, the author of the document proposes to prohibit store owners from taking more than 20% commission for in-app purchases. At the same time, they will have to transfer a third of their income to a “special fund for training personnel in the field of computer technology.” According to the bill, restricting or prohibiting the installation of an alternative application store will be punishable by a fine of 10% of revenue received in the Russian Federation. According to Tumusov, the idea of developing a bill came to him after a series of publications by Telegram founder Pavel Durov “about the actual monopoly that exists in the mobile application market.” Source: Reuters
VMware: More and more Java developers are moving to Kubernetes
According to a report from VMWare, the rate of deployment of containerized Java applications on Kubernetes platforms continues to increase. A survey of 1,024 developers found that nearly 65% of respondents had already used the Spring framework to containerize Java applications. Another 30% plan to do so. Among Spring users who are containerizing applications, 44% said they have deployed these applications to Kubernetes clusters, with another 37% planning to do so. Among those planning to migrate to Kubernetes, 84% said they would do so within the next 12 months. Spring is a Java framework widely used in enterprise product development. Spring was originally created by Pivotal Software, but the project is now being developed with the support of VMWare, which is a division of Dell Technologies. Source: Containerjournal
Linux distribution for running Bottlerocket containers has become publicly available
The Bottlerocket operating system, developed by Amazon Web Services, has become publicly available. The new OS is built on Linux and is designed to run containers on virtual machines and physical servers. The release of the preview version of Bottlerocket took place in March 2020. AWS already has a Linux distribution optimized for the cloud called Amazon Linux. The need to develop a separate distribution for running containers arose as the number of AWS customers interested in this service grew. Amazon says updates to Bottlerocket can be “applied and rolled back atomically, making them easy to automate, reducing management overhead and operational costs.” The AWS team spoke in detail about the release in a blog post . The Bottlerocket source code is available on GitHub and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Source: TechRadar
Xanadu launches quantum cloud platform
Canadian company Xanadu announced the launch of a cloud-based quantum computing platform, Xanadu Quantum Cloud . Clients of the new platform will have access to Xanadu photonic quantum processors based on 8-qubit or 12-qubit chips. According to the company's CEO Christian Widbroek, 24-qubit chips will appear "in the next month or so." Xanadu Quantum Cloud will allow developers, companies and scientists to perform previously unavailable on conventional computers calculations in the fields of finance, quantum chemistry, machine learning and graphical analytics. Headquartered in Toronto, Xanadu has been developing photon-based quantum computers since its founding in September 2016. Unlike similar equipment from other companies, Xanadu quantum processors do not require ultra-low temperature cooling and can operate even at room temperature. Source: Venture Beat
Objective-C turned out to be the highest paying language: fulfilling an order in it is estimated at an average of $66 per hour. At a full-time 40-hour week, this equates to an annual income of over $137,000 (before taxes). Java jobs average $58 per hour on Upwork. The entire rating looks like this:
The first tool was Microsoft Video Authenticator. Its algorithms can determine the authenticity of a photo or video by “detecting where deepfake blends with fine pixels of faded or gray color.” Human vision hardly distinguishes such details. Video Authenticator is built using a publicly available dataset from Face Forensic++ and tested on the DeepFake Detection Challenge dataset. These are two leading models for training and testing deepfake detection technologies. The second technology is an as-yet-unnamed tool for embedding a digital identifier into content metadata. It allows you to detect changes in photos or videos. Source: Microsoft
Among Spring users who are containerizing applications, 44% said they have deployed these applications to Kubernetes clusters, with another 37% planning to do so. Among those planning to migrate to Kubernetes, 84% said they would do so within the next 12 months. Spring is a Java framework widely used in enterprise product development. Spring was originally created by Pivotal Software, but the project is now being developed with the support of VMWare, which is a division of Dell Technologies. Source: Containerjournal
Xanadu Quantum Cloud will allow developers, companies and scientists to perform previously unavailable on conventional computers calculations in the fields of finance, quantum chemistry, machine learning and graphical analytics. Headquartered in Toronto, Xanadu has been developing photon-based quantum computers since its founding in September 2016. Unlike similar equipment from other companies, Xanadu quantum processors do not require ultra-low temperature cooling and can operate even at room temperature. Source: Venture Beat
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