What I learned when I moved from content design to technical writing
Mark Green, a lead technical writer at the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), discusses the similarities and differences between technical writing and content design.
Tools
Automatically creating and rotating GOV.UK application secrets
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Bill Franklin - Senior Developer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Security, Tools
How we reduced toil when managing infrastructure for 50 applications.
How we reduced errors on GOV.UK
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Chris Ashton, senior developer, GDS and Tim Motz, product manager, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Jobs, Tools
All websites run into errors. We’ve reduced our errors by over 90% and changed our culture around errors so they are identified, owned and resolved quickly.
Wheel of Misfortune: Incident rehearsal for GOV.UK PaaS
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Jenny Sleeman, GOV.UK PaaS delivery manager, GDS and Lee Porte, GOV.UK PaaS tech lead, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK PaaS, Security, Tools
Rehearsing for incidents with replica environments to perform hands on investigations takes a lot of setting up. The GOV.UK Platform as a Service team wanted to see if they could get a lot of the value with a reduced amount of setup time and cost.
To build or to buy - that's the technology question
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Amina Omar, GDS Technology Policy Advisor, Posted on:
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Tools, Transformation
We’ve updated the purchasing strategy guidance in the Technology Code of Practice, to offer more advice of when to buy and when to build.
Getting the Document Checking Service ready for take-off
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Alex Wilson, tech lead, DCS and Pippa Clark, technical writer, DCS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Verify, Tools, Transformation
To prepare for the Document Checking Service (DCS) pilot we built out several new capabilities in the service and published our first API documentation powered by user testing.
Building a trusted infrastructure for electoral registration
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Hannah Shaw, Digital Delivery Lead, Trent Greenwood, Technical Architect, Anthony Ilona, Standards and Assurance Lead and Jen Oliver, Delivery Manager, Posted on:
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Tools, Transformation
The team behind Register to Vote explains how they improved the infrastructure it runs on, helping to modernise a service that has so far been used 37 million times.
Keeping tech docs up to date with Daniel the Manual Spaniel
GDS uses the doc-as-code approach to technical documentation, but keeping that content up to date is more of a challenge. Here’s how GDS technical writers and developers fixed the issue.
What we learned from a recent GraphQL workshop
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Amina Omar, GDS Technology Policy Advisor, Posted on:
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Event, Open Source, Open Standards, Tools, Transformation
The Government Digital Service (GDS) recently hosted a remote GraphQL workshop for around 70 people from across government. Here are the main talking points from the event.
Why you should hire a frontend developer
A dedicated frontend developer will make your website faster, more accessible and easier to use. This post looks at what frontend development is, and why you should hire someone in that role now.
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