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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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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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Updating our security guidelines for digital services

Posted by: Dafydd Vaughan, Posted on: 28 June 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK
Post-it notes on the security updates

Back in 2012, GDS released some security guidelines for government services. Although we’re aware individual services have continually upgraded their own security practices, we’re now updating the guidelines to improve how we secure government services overall. We’ll be making 2 …

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Our approach to APIs: the basics

Posted by: Daniel Appelquist, Posted on: 20 June 2016 - Categories: Chat, GaaP, Transformation

As outlined recently by our executive director Stephen Foreshew-Cain in his vision for 2030, “platform thinking” is going to become a key part of government. We’re seeing this happen with the emergence of platforms such as GOV.UK Verify, GOV.UK Notify, …

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Improving how we update content links on GOV.UK

Posted by: Douglas Roper, Posted on: 15 June 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK, Links
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  Our team looks after the cross-government publishing API application and we were recently tasked with improving how content dependencies are managed. On the GOV.UK website, any piece of content may hold links to related articles or translations. In each …

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How we use Git at the Government Digital Service

Posted by: Alex Muller, Posted on: 31 May 2016 - Categories: Chat, Tools
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There's an important difference in how we use Git at GDS compared to lots of other organisations. We're very thorough when using version control because we don't want to waste the effort we've put into writing code. If our code …

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Our commitment to codebar and lifting diversity in technology

Posted by: Tatiana Soukiassian, Posted on: 26 May 2016 - Categories: Chat

A few months ago we announced we were going to host codebar on a regular basis. We thought we’d give you a brief update on how it’s going and share some photos from last week’s event. Codebar teaches programming to …

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Digital Marketplace: moving from portal towards a platform

Posted by: Kevin Keenoy, Posted on: 24 May 2016 - Categories: Digital Marketplace, Transformation
Digital Marketplace team working

G-Cloud 8 has just opened for supplier applications on the Digital Marketplace. From a supplier’s point of view the application process is much the same as previous frameworks but behind the scenes a huge amount of technical change has taken …

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Assessing documentation tools for GOV.UK Pay

Posted by: Paulo Monteiro, Posted on: 20 May 2016 - Categories: GaaP, Tools

As you may know we’ve recently been trying to improve how we write and display our developer documentation. We’ve done lots of user research with technical architects, developers and service managers so we have an idea of what good documentation …

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Our approach to frontend and backend development

Posted by: Richard Boulton and Robin Whittleton, Posted on: 12 May 2016 - Categories: Chat, Jobs, Tools

We thought we’d try and explain the approach we’ve adopted to hiring and nurturing the right development skills. We realise it may not be clear to those not part of GDS why we solely advertise for full stack developers but …

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Testing JSON Web Tokens on Notify

Posted by: Martyn Inglis, Posted on: 6 May 2016 - Categories: Chat, GaaP, Tools
Lock and Key

At GDS we often use REST application programming interfaces (APIs) as a core part of application design. These REST based APIs have data and services that can be accessed by authenticated users. On GOV.UK Notify we’ve decided to authenticate API …

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