Scaling GOV.UK Notify to send 500 million messages a year
Our colleagues in the GOV.UK Email team send out notification emails to around 750,000 GOV.UK users who have signed up for alerts about significant content changes.
Making technology guidance easier to find on GOV.UK
We’re working to make it easier for government technologists to access the guidance they need to buy, design and build the best possible digital services in the most efficient way…
Grand designs for everyone: Government is hiring Technical Architects
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For the first time, the Government Digital Service is joining forces with a number of departments to hire Technical Architects.
We’ve added Samsung Internet to our browser testing recommendations
We update our browser testing recommendations in the Service Manual every 6 months. Samsung Internet is the latest addition to our list to test your service in.
Help us open up UK election data
The Local Government Association (LGA) contacted the Open Standards Team and asked for our help to increase accessibility of election results.
How to open up closed code
Every digital service designed within government has to meet the Digital Service Standard. One of the requirements of the standard is that new source code should be made open and published under an open source licence.
Developing cross-government API data and technical standards
We are pleased to launch the API data and technical standards, which is the culmination of fantastic cross-government collaboration, facilitated by GDS.
It’s time to use ISO 8601 across government
The Open Standards Board has issued date-times and time-stamps guidance mandating the use of the ISO 8601 standard on UK government IT systems. ISO 8601 displays dates and times in order of increasing accuracy. For example, the stamp 2017-01-25T12:34:56+00:00 …
Identifying the challenges of designing cross-government APIs
Technical Writer, Khidr Suleman attended a cross-government API Standards event at the end of October. The event provided an opportunity to discuss how to promote common principles of API design to make them easy to implement across government. A total …
How making our deployment code open improved our workflow
As part of the GDS commitment to code in the open, we have opened up GOV.UK’s application deployment code. This came with a number of challenges but it increased the development team’s efficiency and collaboration. Find out why we opened …
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