Back in 2014 we held an unconference aimed at creating a conversation between technologists across government. The event, dubbed StackTech, turned out to be a big success and led to discussions still going on today, like how to improve reuse …
We’ve recently written a number of blog posts on APIs covering the basic areas like making use of HTTP, URIs, JSON and CSV, as well as on the topic of more complex subjects like how to iterate. There are further …
You may have heard, rule number one for us at Government Digital Service (GDS) is: “always start with user needs”. We do user research. Lots of it. GOV.UK Verify recently completed their 100th round of user research, and they’re not …
GOV.UK gets a lot of visits from people in the UK and further afield. We keep a record of all visits and use this data to support as many users as possible. Deciding which browsers to test We’ll try to …
We’ve recently begun using container tools on GOV.UK Pay to help us run the platform locally and make development less resource heavy. GOV.UK Pay consists of several interacting microservices: a citizen front end, a government service admin interface, a public …
On the GOV.UK team, all our changes are peer reviewed using Github's pull request system. If a developer wants to make a change to one of our projects, they need another developer’s approval before the change is accepted into the …
There seems to be a common belief among front-end developers that progressive enhancement is either old fashioned or has simply been replaced by single page applications. This is a problem of perception. We’d like to explain why we use progressive …
Over the past few months, us developers on the GOV.UK Custom Formats team have been trying out a new approach to software development called mob programming. Instead of individual developers working on stories separately, mob programming involves a group of …
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 …
...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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