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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Last month we hosted our first mini-conference for technical writers, bringing the community together to discuss best practice and tooling. Attendees came from a mix of government departments and agencies, as well as from the private sector. We held the …
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