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, …
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 …
We thought we’d try and explain the approach we’ve adopted to hiring and nurturing the right development skills. We realise it may not be clear to those not part of GDS why we solely advertise for full stack developers but …
At GDS we often use REST application programming interfaces (APIs) as a core part of application design. These REST based APIs have data and services that can be accessed by authenticated users. On GOV.UK Notify we’ve decided to authenticate API …
Last month we hosted our first mini-conference for technical writers, bringing the community together to discuss best practice and tooling. Attendees came from a mix of government departments and agencies, as well as from the private sector. We held the …
This week GDS hosted the second in a series of unconferences we’re organising to better connect the growing community of technologists in government. Building on the success of the recent technical standards camp, this time we were focussed on how we …
You may have seen our recent blog post about creating best practice for documentation. Now we’re hosting an event for technical writers completely focused on documenting application programming interfaces (APIs), just as we've recently held events around standards and code …
You may have noticed a couple of blog posts here recently about opening up code. The past few years have seen a lot of code released by teams across government both in the UK and internationally. That work is regularly …
Every now and then we like to flag posts from other GDS blogs (and maybe further afield) that we think you might be interested in: The GOV.UK team recently began publishing incident reports. Here's one on a spate of 504 …
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