The best programming languages to learn in 2019: Top coding skills that pay you the most

These are the languages that are in the highest demand and offer the highest salaries.

Want to earn a decent wage and boost your chances of getting a job as a developer in 2019? Then learning Kotlin and Java looks a sensible choice.

The two languages offer a decent balance between high pay while still being in-demand, according to job postings in the 12 months to the start of this year.

The languages naturally complement each other, with Kotlin able to be used as a replacement for Java in many instances as it runs on the same underlying platform, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

The open-source, statically-typed language gained major traction in 2017 when Google threw its weight behind Kotlin and designated it an officially supported language for building Android apps.

Kotlin has been described by a Netflix senior software engineer as offering "some of the best features of other languages" combined with "interoperability with Java". There is even speculation that it will eventually replace Java for Android development.

Meanwhile, Java remains widely in use and reasonably well-paid, thanks to language's status as the workhorse of modern enterprise, having been the language of choice for writing server-side business software for more than decade. Beyond business, Java is also an official language used for developing mobile Android apps, and is also used for games and web apps.

Both languages were among the few that were both in demand and well paid throughout 2018 according to IT Jobs Watch, which gathers and analyzes data from UK IT job vacancies.

The State of Software Development Outsourcing in Vietnam in 2019

The State of Software Development Outsourcing in Vietnam in 2019

In the past decade, the software development industry has been evolving at a paid pace with the introduction of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligent and Machine Learning, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Technology, and automation. Software development outsourcing has proved to be a successful solution for so many years as outsourcing helps business organizations accomplish their IT projects while saving costs at the same time and other benefits.

However, time is changing and many are starting to speculate as to whether software outsourcing is still effective or not. The answer is, software outsourcing will always remain relevant. The incoming advanced technologies, together with digital transformation will serve as a boost to software outsourcing, in contrast to the notion that these new technologies will deter the growth of the software outsourcing industry.

Software development outsourcing in Vietnam in 2019

Certainly, these advanced technologies allow companies to automate many part of their businesses. Still, these new forms of technologies are still largely at the developing stage and it would be difficult to hire experienced and capable developers to work on the IT projects required. Thus, software development outsourcing will not only stay relevant, but also remain necessary. Here’s why:

Top Benefits of Outsourcing Software Development

A lot of people still think primarily about cost-cutting as the main motivation to outsource software development projects to offshore or nearshore providers. However, in recent years the industry has greatly evolved and many providers have greatly invested in the quality of their services.

While there are always advantages and disadvantages and it is always important to carefully consider the pros and cons, IT decision makers increasingly leverage outsourcing companies as an enabler for business growth.

Rather than focusing on financial aspects, in this article we will look at ways to utilize outsourcing software development services to unlock additional business value.

Microservice Architecture  —  Is It Right for Your Software Development?

Microservices have been gaining ground in software development since the term came into existence. Microservices, aka microservice architecture, is a variant of service-oriented architecture (SOA) for developing large applications where services are grained into chunks as per business domains. It enables the continuous delivery/deployment of complex applications and makes the application easier to understand, develop, and test, and is more resilient to architecture erosion. 

The microservice architecture provides a new way to weave existing systems in novel ways in order to deliver software solutions quickly. It's one of the hottest topics in the software industry due to its ability to provide modularity, scalability, availability; many enterprise software development companies are keen to adopt it.

What Exactly Are Microservices?

Can microservices improve an organization’s culture, skills, and needs? To understand microservices in depth, let’s first understand the gist of the contrary approach: monolithic architecture.

Benefits of Adopting a DevOps Environment

There are key principles that form a DevOps environment. What are these principles and how can organizations build a DevOps practice?

The DevOps revolution is upon us, but why? According to Patrick Debois, one of the masterminds behind the movement, the DevOps environment grew as a reaction against some of the common problems that the IT industry faces, including the siloing of team members and the work they do, the uncertainty of introducing new features or deploying changes, the difficulty of finding and addressing defects, and the rise of bottlenecks within the software development lifecycle (SDLC). 

A DevOps environment aims to address these challenges by increasing how well IT operations and development teams collaborate in order to create an environment characterized by a unified team with a multidisciplinary skillset. This structure transforms the way that teams work together and the way that software is built by bridging the gap between “dev” and “ops” and applying effective DevOps tools to mitigate data silos. Overall, a DevOps environment increases visibility to reduce the risk of uncertainty, improves error and bug detection, and mitigates bottlenecks and waste in the development process.