Finding out what government organisations need to consider when using cloud
Our initial research shows that government organisations are facing challenges balancing capabilities and lock-in when using the cloud.
Transformation
What HM Land Registry learned building its first register in 90 years
Posted by:
Mark Edwards, Service Manager at HM Land Registry, Posted on:
-
Categories:
HM Land Registry, Tools, Transformation
Find out how the Local Land Charges team at HM Land Registry has helped local authorities in England to standardise and migrate local land charges register information to one central, accessible place.
You can now get .api.gov.uk domain names
Posted by:
Rosalie Marshall, GDS, Lead Technology Advisor, Posted on:
-
Categories:
News, Transformation
Find out how you can get an API domain on GOV.UK and what updates we’ve made to the API and data standards.
How GOV.UK Pay used Behaviour Driven Development to improve delivery times
Posted by:
Katie Bates, GDS Senior Product Manager and Alex Bishop, GOV.UK Pay developer, GDS, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Transformation
Find out how the Pay team used Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) to increase its pace, have a more predictable timeline, and improve team morale.
Help us improve government data standards
Posted by:
John Strudwick, GDS Interim Director, Service, Design and Assurance, Posted on:
-
Categories:
News, Transformation
Calling all data practitioners, data leaders and creators, we need your feedback on our data standards proposal and demo code to help us improve data collection and sharing across government.
Start taking payments in one day with GOV.UK Pay
Posted by:
Till Wirth, GDS Service Manager, Katie Bates, GDS Senior Product Manager and Lewis Dunne, GDS Tech Writer, Posted on:
-
Categories:
GOV.UK, Transformation
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
Posted by:
Rosalie Marshall, GDS, Lead Technology Advisor, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Event, Transformation
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
Posted by:
Venus Bailey, GDS, Technical Architect and Phil Potter, GDS, Senior Developer, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Open Source, Tools, Transformation
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
Posted by:
Barry Traish, DWP, Lead Agile Digital Delivery Manager for Find a job, Posted on:
-
Categories:
GOV.UK, Jobs, Transformation
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
Posted by:
Matt Hobbs, GDS, Head of Frontend, Posted on:
-
Categories:
GOV.UK Performance, Transformation
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.