Demonstrating the benefits of AI in government with the Rubik’s Cube
The world record for solving a scrambled Rubik's cube is 4.22 seconds. But what can this teach us about using AI in government?
Get advice to help solve technology challenges at our monthly drop-in clinic
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Seyed Razavi and Tom March, GDS Lead Technology Advisor, Posted on:
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We held our first Consulting Technical Architects (CTA) drop-in at the GDS offices in Whitechapel at the start August. The half-day session was attended by technologists from a range of government departments and we plan to run this drop-in clinic …
4 things the GOV.UK PaaS team built during their firebreak
Here’s what the GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS) team worked on during its April firebreak.
Build your Docs career event: our recap
Catch up on all the highlights from our Build your Docs career conference.
Building a tool to improve our GitHub security
GitHub plays a major role in the software supply chain at GDS. All our source code is stored in GitHub - mainly in Alphagov - and we work hard to make sure our repositories are secure.
Changing our testing requirements for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10
Service team developers no longer need to test on Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 (old versions of IE) when following our ‘designing for different browsers and devices’ guidance.
We’ve combined the Technology Leaders and Digital Leaders Networks
The Technology Leaders Network (TLN) and the Digital Leaders Network (DLN) recently merged.
Understanding legacy technology in government
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Lucy Carey and Claire Ashworth, Technical Writer, CDDO, Posted on:
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We recently finished a discovery to help us learn more about some of the biggest legacy problems across government.
Sticky elements: functionality and accessibility testing
In GOV.UK's Modelling Services team we looked at the possibility of using sticky functionality as part of our work with step by step navigation elements. Here’s what we found.
How we load-tested our email notification system when moving to GOV.UK Notify
This post explains how our GOV.UK Email team used load testing and code profiling when migrating to GOV.UK Notify to make sure we could continue to send out 1 million emails per hour during peak times.
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