Our team is building a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for government so developers can quickly and easily host websites. We’re using the open source Cloud Foundry (CF) technology to ensure reliable hosting, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our …
I spoke recently at the Business Reporter’s Data Security in the Cloud event about how security has changed to face the reality of the modern internet era. The old world of assurance and compliance and ‘security says no’ won't cut …
Over the past 18 months or so we've devoted a lot of effort to the programme of migrating our confusing mix of publishing mechanisms to a new, more efficient centralised architecture. We've written a fair amount already about the progress of the migration and some parts of …
Back in 2012, GDS released some security guidelines for government services. Although we’re aware individual services have continually upgraded their own security practices, we’re now updating the guidelines to improve how we secure government services overall. We’ll be making 2 …
As outlined recently by our executive director Stephen Foreshew-Cain in his vision for 2030, “platform thinking” is going to become a key part of government. We’re seeing this happen with the emergence of platforms such as GOV.UK Verify, GOV.UK Notify, …
Our team looks after the cross-government publishing API application and we were recently tasked with improving how content dependencies are managed. On the GOV.UK website, any piece of content may hold links to related articles or translations. In each …
There's an important difference in how we use Git at GDS compared to lots of other organisations. We're very thorough when using version control because we don't want to waste the effort we've put into writing code. If our code …
A few months ago we announced we were going to host codebar on a regular basis. We thought we’d give you a brief update on how it’s going and share some photos from last week’s event. Codebar teaches programming to …
G-Cloud 8 has just opened for supplier applications on the Digital Marketplace. From a supplier’s point of view the application process is much the same as previous frameworks but behind the scenes a huge amount of technical change has taken …
As you may know we’ve recently been trying to improve how we write and display our developer documentation. We’ve done lots of user research with technical architects, developers and service managers so we have an idea of what good documentation …
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