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Transformation
Start taking payments in one day with GOV.UK Pay
GDS has made it easier for small public sector organisations to set up and use GOV.UK Pay. Previously, it could take some organisations up to 6 months before they could take payments through GOV.UK Pay. Now users can get set up and take payments from citizens on the same day.
10 things we learned from our API Community of Practice event
Find out about the Canadian government’s cross-government API Store, how the DVSA improved staff morale with mobile working, tips on delivering APIs as a product manager and more.
Challenges of implementing alerts on a managed container service
The GDS Reliability Engineering team had to find some inventive workarounds to get the Alertmanager open source software package working on a managed container service. Here’s a detailed look at how we did it.
The benefits of continuous deployment on Find a job
By making the switch to continuous deployment on one of the government’s busiest services, DWP has reduced downtime on Find a job and released updates faster to provide benefits to users.
Why we focus on frontend performance
The Government Digital Service recently updated guidance on frontend performance. We focus heavily on improving web performance as GOV.UK is accessed from various devices and connectivity. Here’s why you need to focus on it too.
Improving the Technology Code of Practice for local authorities
The GDS Technology Policy team outlines improvements to the Technology Code of Practice to make it more relevant to all government organisations.
It’s ok to experiment with emerging technology
Emerging technologies are creating lots of buzz and the Government Digital Service (GDS) has released guidance on how the public sector should think about using these solutions.
Laying the foundations for a digital Land Registry
HM Land Registry talks through the steps it's taking to modernise and how it’s going to meet the needs of users in the digital world.
Lessons learned using contract testing in GOV.UK Pay
Learn about the challenges we faced when switching to contract testing and the benefits we’ve gained by moving away from expensive end-to-end testing.