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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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Our technology community away day

Posted by: David Heath, Posted on: 2 September 2016 - Categories: Chat, Digital Marketplace, GaaP, GOV.UK, GOV.UK Verify

Over the past year at GDS, we’ve been working hard to create a strong technology community. Recently we took a day out of the office together. The GDS Technology community is pretty big – just over 90 civil servants and …

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Securing development in an agile environment

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 26 August 2016 - Categories: Chat, Transformation

...go hand in hand Done well, agile development and operations go hand in hand with secure systems. Security teams often rely on speed and transparency and this means involving many...

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Scaling the Petitions service following the EU Referendum

Posted by: Andrew White, Posted on: 16 August 2016 - Categories: Chat
Petition: EU Referendum Rules triggering a 2nd EU Referendum

On Friday 24 June, following the vote to leave the European Union, the Petitions service had to scale fast to accommodate unprecedented traffic levels. This is a guest post from Andrew White, the chief technology officer of Unboxed, on how …

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Our web security workshop for GDS developers

Posted by: Alex Muller and Jenny Duckett, Posted on: 9 August 2016 - Categories: Chat

We recently ran a one-day workshop on web security for technologists at the Government Digital Service (GDS). Security is a topic where lots of people lack confidence in their skills so we thought it was a valuable area to focus …

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A roundup of our GOV.UK search tools

Posted by: Mat Moore, Posted on: 28 July 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK, Tools

One of the GDS design principles is to do the hard work to make things simple. As part of the work we’ve been doing to migrate our publishing platforms, we’ve been simplifying the infrastructure of our search system. Lots of …

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Considering our approach to API iteration

Posted by: David Illsley, Posted on: 26 July 2016 - Categories: Chat, GaaP

...and API iteration. In comparison, the (roughly) representational state transfer (RESTful) JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) APIs we’ve been developing over the last few years are simple and clear, but lack...

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Come and join the GDS Tech Group

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 21 July 2016 - Categories: Chat

GDS is constantly on the lookout for great technologists to come and work with us. We have roles open at the moment for technical architects, developers, and web operations engineers but we have other more specific roles in the pipeline …

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How our Government PaaS team solved an AWS packet mystery

Posted by: Hector Rivas Gandara, Posted on: 20 July 2016 - Categories: GaaP

Our team is building a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for government so developers can quickly and easily host websites. We’re using the open source Cloud Foundry (CF) technology to ensure reliable hosting, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our …

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Why ‘security says no’ won't cut it anymore

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 13 July 2016 - Categories: Chat, Transformation
GDS poster displaying the words 'Trust. User. Delivery.'s

I spoke recently at the Business Reporter’s Data Security in the Cloud event about how security has changed to face the reality of the modern internet era. The old world of assurance and compliance and ‘security says no’ won't cut …

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Introducing the GOV.UK publishing platform in detail

Posted by: Daniel Roseman, Posted on: 8 July 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK

Over the past 18 months or so we've devoted a lot of effort to the programme of migrating our confusing mix of publishing mechanisms to a new, more efficient centralised architecture. We've written a fair amount already about the progress of the migration and some parts of …

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