As an Open Source community member, you are responsible for handling any security issues you identify. This post provides an example of a security issue we encountered and resolved by working with the project security team.
In this blog post I’ll discuss our thoughts on providing access to datasets through APIs. My thoughts are based on experiences with the Registers team, who have been conducting user research into how people use data, and agree with the …
07 August 2020 update: We’ve updated this post to remove references to ‘whitelisting’ and ‘whitelists’. GDS has updated its style guide to ban references to the racist terms ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’. We now use ‘allow list’ and ‘block list’ instead. …
We’ve recently written a number of blog posts on APIs covering the basic areas like making use of HTTP, URIs, JSON and CSV, as well as on the topic of more complex subjects like how to iterate. There are further …
You may have heard, rule number one for us at Government Digital Service (GDS) is: “always start with user needs”. We do user research. Lots of it. GOV.UK Verify recently completed their 100th round of user research, and they’re not …
We’ve recently begun using container tools on GOV.UK Pay to help us run the platform locally and make development less resource heavy. GOV.UK Pay consists of several interacting microservices: a citizen front end, a government service admin interface, a public …
Over the past year at GDS, we’ve been working hard to create a strong technology community. Recently we took a day out of the office together. The GDS Technology community is pretty big – just over 90 civil servants and …
One of the key aspects of how we work is constant iteration. As Government as a Platform progresses into beta with application programming interfaces (API) driven transactional services (rather than pure data access), it’s time to explain how we think …
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 …
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, …
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