William Palmer, GDS Lead Developer

How GOV.UK Verify maintains zero downtime when deploying new frontend versions

William Palmer, GDS Lead Developer and Jakub Miarka, GDS Developer and Tech Lead, 10 April 2019 - GOV.UK Verify

The GOV.UK Verify team has changed the way its frontend is deployed. We take a deep dive into the technical challenges and how the load balancing changes give users a better experience.

Opening the GOV.UK Verify Hub source code

William Palmer, GDS Lead Developer and Maisie Fernandes, GDS technical architect, 18 February 2019 - GOV.UK Verify, Open Source

The standards that underpin GOV.UK Verify have always been open but we started coding as a private project. Here’s a recap of our journey to coding in the open.

Behind the scenes of GOV.UK Verify: improving users’ security

William Palmer, GDS Lead Developer and David King, 28 November 2016 - GOV.UK Verify

At GOV.UK Verify we take users’ security very seriously. Online security is constantly changing, and we need to be up to date at all times. We regularly update the service’s frontend to ensure it’s running the most secure and recent …

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