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Government’s Cloud First Policy is 12!

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Government’s Cloud First Policy is 12!

Two landmark publications: the State of Digital Government Review, and the blueprint for modern digital government are clear - cloud technology is helping to reshape how government works. With the blueprint setting out the long-term vision, and with the Government …

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Global Day of Code Retreat 2018: tackling the Game of Life at GDS

Posted by: Jonathan Kerr and Yanny Thompson, Posted on: 9 January 2019 - Categories: Event
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The Government Digital Service hosted an event for developers as part of the Global Day of Code Retreat. Find out what we did and why we set them an impossible challenge.

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The benefits of migrating GOV.UK Pay’s codebase to the GOV.UK Design System

Posted by: Jon Heslop, GDS Front End Developer, Posted on: 21 December 2018 - Categories: GOV.UK, Transformation
Working on templates on GOV.UK Pay

The GOV.UK Pay team has made significant performance improvements by using the GOV.UK Design System. Find out what our migration process was like and how your service can benefit too.

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Updating the GDS technical documentation tool

Posted by: Jonathan Glassman, GDS Technical writer, Posted on: 7 December 2018 - Categories: Tools
Two writers looking at content in the technical documentation tool

The Government Digital Service aims to make technical documentation simple and easy to understand. We've updated our documentation tool to improve the user experience by adding multi-pages, collapsible navigation and more.

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Building, testing and iterating our monitoring and alerting service

Posted by: David McDonald, Tech Lead, GOV.UK Notify, Posted on: 9 November 2018 - Categories: Tools
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Find out how the GDS internal monitoring and alerting service works and how we’re improving our documentation with user research.

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Emerging tech, code sharing and other things we talked about at StackTech 4

Posted by: Sunitha Elizabeth Chacko, Posted on: 7 November 2018 - Categories: Event, Transformation

The cross-government event covered challenges the public sector needs to think about when considering the use of blockchain, voice assistants and artificial intelligence.

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11 barriers to coding in the open and how to overcome them

Posted by: Khidr Suleman, GDS Technical Writer, Posted on: 5 November 2018 - Categories: Event, Open Source

The cross-government open source meetup addressed common barriers to coding in the open, from hacking fears to licensing confusion.

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Improving our in-house rotas

Posted by: Toby Lorne, Posted on: 25 October 2018 - Categories: Open Source, Tools, Transformation
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At the Government Digital Service we've stopped using spreadsheets and software-as-a-service tools to manage our rotas and built our own app. We've open sourced the code, so you can use it too.

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Using agile architecture across government

Posted by: Seyed Razavi, Posted on: 12 October 2018 - Categories: Event

Our second CTA drop-in session focused on agile architectures and how we can use these across government.

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Making GOV.UK pages load faster and use less data

Posted by: Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development, GDS, Posted on: 4 October 2018 - Categories: Transformation

We changed the way fonts load on GOV.UK to speed up loading times on old devices with slow connection speeds.

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Join us to discuss future technology trends at StackTech 4

Posted by: Sunitha Elizabeth Chacko, Posted on: 17 September 2018 - Categories: Event
A group discussing consumer driven contract testing

Join us at our next cross-government technology event on 18 October.

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