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Amazon EKS charges $0.60 per cluster hour once a Kubernetes version leaves standard support, six times the $0.10 base rate. That number, not a job title, is what a DevOps hire is really being asked to prevent.
Two hard numbers now decide whether an Android team can ship: API level 36 on Google Play from 31 August 2026, and Android Gradle plugin 9.1.1 for the August 2026 Compose release. Here is how to hire against them.
PHP 8.2 stops receiving security patches on 31 December 2026, Laravel 12 left bug-fix support on 13 August 2026, and 28.9% of PHP sites still run version 7. Here is how to scope a PHP team against those dates.
Django's Steering Council accepted DEP 20 on 10 August 2026: one release a year from 2028, three years of support for every release, and the LTS label retired. Django 6.1 also dropped four database versions. Here is
Go supports only two major releases at a time, so Go 1.25 goes dark the day Go 1.27 ships. Here is how that window, the encoding/json v2 swap and the provided.al2 Lambda cliff shape what a Go team costs.
Node 20 went end of life on 30 April 2026, the July 2026 security release carried 11 CVEs, and from October the whole release model changes. Here is what that does to the shape of a Node.js contract team.
Python 3.10 goes end of life in October 2026, 3.11 and 3.12 are already security-only with no binary installers, and free-threaded Python became officially supported in 3.14. Here is how those dates shape a Python
Quess Corp's Q1 FY27 report puts India's AI and data analytics supply-demand gap at 36-40%, the widest of any capability. GCCs stopped competing for that pool and started converting the engineers they already employ
The React Native talent pool runs roughly 10 to 15 times larger than Flutter's, and a senior US hire takes 4 to 8 weeks against 8 to 16 for Flutter. Performance is no longer the deciding variable: both frameworks clear
