Weekly Technology Trends 📅 - week 2, December 2020

Hello from Tradeling.com, it's the second week in December, and we're rushing towards the end of 2020. This week was full of events, so let's dive in.

• GitHub universe conference was last week, there are plenty of interesting announcements, starting from workflow and developer experience enhancements such as dark mode, auto-merge pull requests, discussions and dependency review, other announcement for the Sponsors for companies enabling organizations to invest in the open source developers and projects that they depend on. You can read more here.
• AWS re:invent continues: there are many new products, new EC2 mac instances, EC2 with AMD GPU, other enhanced memory and cpu instances along side with the announcement of new availability zones. find out more here
• From GitHub again, octoverse report released with lightening insights on remote work conditions during pandemic, how it affected out community efforts, what's the major fields of contributions and how we responded to the COVID-19.
• Sad news, RedHat announced changes in the release plans for CentOs, reducing life time and serving the new CentOs Stream as an upstream for the RHEL. Seems like CentOs will lose much of its popularity with the enterprise acquisitions burying another great product
• Hyundai takes a controlling stake in robot maker Boston Dynamics for $1.1B, Hyundai says its investment will help its development of service and logistics robots, but that over time it hopes to build more humanoid robots for jobs like “caregiving for patients at hospitals.” Other areas of interest include autonomous driving and smart factories.
• Chinese scientists have developed the most powerful quantum computer in the world, capable of performing at least one task 100 trillion times faster than the world's fastest supercomputers, this will impose challenges on cyber security algorithms we use today.
• The gurus from jetbrains announced Jetbrains space, an all-in-one solution for development + product + documents + messages.
• Another acquire near the end of the year, Sony acquires Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.175 billion, more quick steps from Sony in the anime industry and will allow them to compete on a global scope

Releses

• Nodejs: current release is 15.4.0, nothing major here
• mongoose: version 5.11.7 released with fixes for typescript definitions
• expo: SDK version 40 with faster publish times, XCode 12, improved icons and typescript support
• elasticSearch: version 7.10.1 released bug fixes and enhancements

Top picks

• CSS Findings From The New Facebook Design detailed exploration for the css rules in the new facebook design

That's it from us, feel free to leave your feedback in the comments section.