How we fixed a strange ‘week year’ bug
How we fixed a strange ‘week year’ bug
When a pull request failed because of an incorrect creation date, the GOV.UK Pay team investigated the cause. Here’s how they found and fixed the bug.
Join the next cross-government API Community of Practice meetup
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Sarah Johns, Data Standards Authority Community Manager, GDS, Posted on:
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Event
If you’re in the public sector and are working on APIs, find out more about our API Community of Practice and attend our upcoming event.
Wheel of Misfortune: Incident rehearsal for GOV.UK PaaS
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Jenny Sleeman, GOV.UK PaaS delivery manager, GDS and Lee Porte, GOV.UK PaaS tech lead, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK PaaS, Security, Tools
Rehearsing for incidents with replica environments to perform hands on investigations takes a lot of setting up. The GOV.UK Platform as a Service team wanted to see if they could get a lot of the value with a reduced amount of setup time and cost.
To build or to buy - that's the technology question
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Amina Omar, GDS Technology Policy Advisor, Posted on:
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Tools, Transformation
We’ve updated the purchasing strategy guidance in the Technology Code of Practice, to offer more advice of when to buy and when to build.
Getting the Document Checking Service ready for take-off
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Alex Wilson, tech lead, DCS and Pippa Clark, technical writer, DCS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Verify, Tools, Transformation
To prepare for the Document Checking Service (DCS) pilot we built out several new capabilities in the service and published our first API documentation powered by user testing.
Head of Technology and Architecture for GOV.UK opening at GDS
GDS are recruiting for someone to lead on creation of the next generation of GOV.UK’s technical architecture, and to head up the community of technologists who will build this future. Find out more information about the role and how to apply.
Highlights from our “Form Design” cross-government workshop
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Venus Bailey, GDS, Technical Architect and Khidr Suleman, GDS Technical Writer, Posted on:
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Event, Transformation
The cross-government form-building community has grown to over 130 people and is developing resources to improve how forms are developed and used.
What it’s like being a frontend developer at GDS
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Iqbal Ahmed, frontend developer, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, GOV.UK Performance
Frontend development is a growing role within government, and it’s a vital one, as the work is focused on the parts of government that citizens interact with most often. Iqbal Ahmed, frontend developer at GDS, outlines the main duties of the role.
Building a trusted infrastructure for electoral registration
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Hannah Shaw, Digital Delivery Lead, Trent Greenwood, Technical Architect, Anthony Ilona, Standards and Assurance Lead and Jen Oliver, Delivery Manager, Posted on:
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Tools, Transformation
The team behind Register to Vote explains how they improved the infrastructure it runs on, helping to modernise a service that has so far been used 37 million times.
Keeping tech docs up to date with Daniel the Manual Spaniel
GDS uses the doc-as-code approach to technical documentation, but keeping that content up to date is more of a challenge. Here’s how GDS technical writers and developers fixed the issue.
The road to closing down the PSN
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Mark Smith, GDS Head of PSN and Cyber Compliance, Posted on:
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Security, Transformation
Government Digital Service is continuing work to support migration away from the Public Services Network. Here’s an update on what we’ve done so far in 2020 and a summary of next steps.