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How We Write GitHub Actions in Go
Go with GitHub Actions Introduction Since the release of GitHub Actions in 2019, GitHub has been heavily investing in improvements to the CI / CD experience. As part of this investment, repeatable tasks can be provided as custom actions and shared externally with the community or internally within a GitHub Enterprise instance. At Blend, we’ve benefited from adopting GitHub Actions. We have built tooling that enables writing an action in Go and automates the release process for actions within our GitHub Enterprise instance.
Encrypting Streams in Go
At Blend, we deal with highly sensitive consumer financial data. We use several data stores — Postgres, MongoDB, CockroachDB, and Etcd — all of which need to be backed up. While MongoDB and Postgres give us prebuilt tools for encrypting backups, Etcd and CockroachDB do not. Our standard practice is to encrypt these backups before storing them. This became more challenging as our backups grew. Encrypting backups in memory At the beginning the backups were small, and we were able to use Vault’s transit features to encrypt them.