---
title: "GitHub unveils Actions, its new workflow automation system"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 188
published_at: "2018-10-17"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/188"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#188 — October 17, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/188)   

Web Operations Weekly 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/hylqsb3l35kacc8lpotc.jpg)](https://github.com/features/actions)  

[GitHub Actions: Workflow Automation on GitHub](https://github.com/features/actions) — Still in beta, _Actions_ takes GitHub into new, ops-style territory by providing definable, automated workflows for deploying and releasing software. It’s billed as _“the biggest shift we’ve had in the history of GitHub”._ 

GitHub   

[The Illustrated TLS Connection: Every Byte Explained](https://tls.ulfheim.net/) — If you _really_ want to get down to the bits and bytes of things, this page demonstrates the chatter between a client and a server negotiating a TLS 1.2 session. 

Michael Driscoll   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/2fb58cbd.png)](https://raygun.com/platform/apm) 

[Successful Software Starts Here](https://raygun.com/platform/apm) — Unlock your biggest app performance bottlenecks with all new Raygun APM. Get unparalleled detail on traces presented in an intuitive UI. [Now available for .NET](https://raygun.com/platform/apm). 

Raygun sponsor   

[A Tour Inside Cloudflare's G9 Servers](https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-tour-inside-cloudflares-g9-servers/) — Cloudflare claims to now serve “nearly 10%” of the Internet’s HTTP requests and to do that they need some _serious_ servers. This post digs into what they’re using. 

The Cloudflare Blog   

[MongoDB Issues New 'Server Side Public License' for Its Community Edition](https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-issues-new-server-side-public-license-for-mongodb-community-server) — A new license (to be used on the community edition of MongoDB from here on) specifies how MongoDB can be run _as a service_. The key change is those running MongoDB as a service needs to open source their unique contributions. 

MongoDB, Inc.   

[AWS Lambda Ups Function Running Time to 15 Minutes](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/aws-lambda-supports-functions-that-can-run-up-to-15-minutes/) — You can now configure your AWS Lambda functions to run up to 15 minutes per execution - it used to be 5. More like this in [our serverless newsletter.](https://serverless.email/?utm_source=webops&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cross_promo&utm_content=188) 

Amazon Web Services   

[Tim Berners-Lee Introduces 'Solid' Decentralized Identity Platform](https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/10/solid-identity-platform) — Solid is a new decentralized identity platform from WWW creator Tim Berners-Lee built around existing Web standards. 

InfoQ  

💻 Jobs  

[Sr. Fullstack Engineer (Remote)](https://www.stickermule.com/careers) — Sticker Mule is looking for passionate developers to join our remote team. Come help us become the Internet’s best place to shop and work. 

Sticker Mule   

[Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With A Job You Love](https://www.hired.com/webops) — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities, and job details. 

Hired  

📘 Tutorials & News  

[Docker Raises $92 Million in New Funding](https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/docker-has-raised-92-million-in-new-funding/) 

TechCrunch   

[Migrating On-Premises VMs to AWS with AWS Server Migration Service](https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/migrate-on-premises-virtual-machines-to-aws) — Yet another AWS service I’d somehow not heard of :-) 

Paolo Valsecchi   

▶[Using Google Cloud Memorystore for Redis and OpenCensus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIVRQrW-Tuk) 

Google sponsor   

[Administrating AWS Resources Productively with the AWS CLI](https://hackernoon.com/administrating-aws-resources-productively-using-the-aws-cli-efbbbae68692) 

David Clinton   

[What's The Difference Between Versioning and Revisioning APIs?](https://nordicapis.com/whats-the-difference-between-versioning-and-revisioning-apis/) — A comparison of two ways to update a Web API. 

Kristopher Sandoval   

[Serverless Rust with Cloudflare Workers](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-as-a-serverless-rust-platform/) 

Steven Pack   

▶[Dr. Nicole Forsgren on DevOps: 'You Are What You Measure'](https://thenewstack.io/dr-nicole-forsgren-on-devops-you-are-what-you-measure/) — An interview with the CEO and Chief Scientist of DevOps Research and Assessment. 

The New Stack podcast  

💬 Stories & Opinions  

[$ Marks The Spot: Saving a Ton with EC2 Spot Fleet](http://tech.adroll.com/blog/dev/ops/2018/10/15/x-marks-the-spot.html) — _“We reduced by over 60% the EC2 instance cost of our 1000+ node globally-distributed log-producing application”_ 

Mike Watters (AdRoll)   

[How We Use Git at Microsoft](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/use-git-microsoft) 

Matt Cooper (Microsoft)   

[Challenge Yourself, Contribute to Projects and Earn Swag](https://blog.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-is-back-for-year-5/?utm_source=paid_newsletter+webops+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=10-17-18+webops+weekly+cooperpress) — Join DigitalOcean, GitHub, and Twilio in celebrating open source during the 5th annual Hacktoberfest and earn a limited-edition t-shirt. Learn more. 

DigitalOcean sponsor   

[Microservices vs Spaghetti Code Are Not Your Only Options](https://blog.phusion.nl/2018/10/11/modularity-vs-spaghetti-code-are-not-your-only-options/) 

Floor Drees (Phusion)  

🔧 Code & Tools  

[Introducing Container-Native Load Balancing on Google Kubernetes Engine](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/introducing-container-native-load-balancing-on-google-kubernetes-engine) 

Google Cloud Blog   

[nginx-c-function: A Module to Call Your C Code from NGINX](https://nginx-c-function.github.io/) — Link your C library to an NGINX server with this module and call functions from `location` directives. 

Taymindis Woon   

[Dice: Roll All Instances within a Kubernetes Cluster, using a Zero-Downtime Strategy](https://github.com/dmathieu/dice) 

Damien Mathieu   

[Responder: A Familiar HTTP Service Framework for Python](http://python-responder.org/en/latest/) — Brings together a variety of ‘niceties’ from other frameworks. 

Kenneth Reitz   

[Kubernetes Tools: A Set of Scripts to Simplify Daily Kubernetes Operations](https://github.com/shawnxlw/kubernetes-tools) 

Shawn Wang   

[Lambda Serverless Search: Use AWS Lambda to Perform Free-Text Search on Documents](https://github.com/rlingineni/Lambda-Serverless-Search) 

Raviteja Lingineni         

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