As James and Ade announced in December, I'm doing some work to connect practitioners in government around the use of open standards as we develop APIs, and our overall approach to data and digital services. That will complement other emerging …
Over the course of the past few years many teams across government have begun publishing their code under open source licenses. That's a change that's been pushed by the Digital by Default Service Standard but it's just as much a …
Becoming a “consulting” architect In the spring of 2015, after years working in technology, most recently in the fast-paced mobile sector, I joined the Government Digital Service as a technical architect and I blogged about it at the time.
Meet Dan Appelquist. Dan’s just joined GDS to head up our work to build a community of practice around the use of (and contribution to) open standards in software projects across government. Here’s why that matters. What standards give us …
At GOV.UK Verify we recently encountered a technical performance issue: a memory leak problem with our application that is responsible for any end-user facing functionality. We’ve been running extensive performance testing as we prepare for going live next April and …
Until recently, career development for technologists at GDS was relatively unstructured, and dependent on what opportunities came up. Over the last few months I’ve been leading on developing a more structured career path for developers and web operations engineers. This …
We’re about to start recruiting for several developer jobs, and we thought it would be worth explaining how we’ve updated our application process since the last time we blogged about it. GDS wants to attract the best candidates to join …
The QCon conference arrived in London this week - it's a big deal for anyone involved in software development. Our technology team at the Government Digital Service (GDS) spoke at the event, along with speakers from a number of talented …
One of the challenges involved in developing a loosely-coupled publishing architecture like www.gov.uk is ensuring that all the components are speaking the same language. At a very basic level, that can just mean agreeing on a standard set of REST …
We're looking to significantly increase the size of our teams as we plan for the next phases of GOV.UK, GOV.UK Verify, the Performance Platform and other GDS projects. There are loads of different types of work to do and we're …
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