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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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Monitoring the GOV.UK infrastructure

Posted by: Laura Martin, Posted on: 30 March 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK
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We recently started publishing Incident Reports when things go wrong on GOV.UK. These reports recognise all technologies inevitably run into problems and sometimes these problems may affect users. But while publishing these reports, we’re also keen to minimise them by spotting …

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Reporting back on the code sharing unconference

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 4 March 2016 - Categories: Chat

This week GDS hosted the second in a series of unconferences we’re organising to better connect the growing community of technologists in government. Building on the success of the recent technical standards camp, this time we were focussed on how we …

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A mini conference for technical writers on documenting APIs

Posted by: Rosalie Marshall, Posted on: 26 February 2016 - Categories: Chat, GaaP
Write The Docs London invite

You may have seen our recent blog post about creating best practice for documentation. Now we’re hosting an event for technical writers completely focused on documenting application programming interfaces (APIs), just as we've recently held events around standards and code …

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Reporting back on the tech and data standards unconference

Posted by: Daniel Appelquist, Posted on: 24 February 2016 - Categories: GaaP, Transformation
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Last week, the Government Digital Service held its first community ‘unconference’ on the topic of technical and data standards within government. The event was a great success both in terms of turnout and participation. Over 70 government technologists came together …

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The role of an architect in discovery

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 8 February 2016 - Categories: Transformation

Last year GDS did a lot of discovery work. As well as ongoing work evaluating what was next for many of the things we were already doing, we built teams exploring possibilities for new platforms, and we worked with colleagues …

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New browser testing recommendations

Posted by: Robin Whittleton, Posted on: 3 February 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK

We recently updated our browsers and devices list with our current testing recommendations. As a general rule (although there are of course exceptions) we recommend testing pages and services against the top 95% of browsers used to access GOV.UK. This …

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A code sharing community across government

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 3 February 2016 - Categories: Chat
Make things open it makes things better

You may have noticed a couple of blog posts here recently about opening up code. The past few years have seen a lot of code released by teams across government both in the UK and internationally. That work is regularly …

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Performing complex schema changes in production

Posted by: Paul Bowsher, Posted on: 1 February 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK

Changing a database schema on a production application can be a complicated and risky process. Due to the nature of some of these schema changes and the underlying database engine, the physical change may take many minutes and can block …

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Links from around GDS for January 2016

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 29 January 2016 - Categories: Chat

Every now and then we like to flag posts from other GDS blogs (and maybe further afield) that we think you might be interested in: The GOV.UK team recently began publishing incident reports. Here's one on a spate of 504 …

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Technical Standards In Government “Camp”

Posted by: Daniel Appelquist, Posted on: 28 January 2016 - Categories: Chat

As James and Ade announced in December, I'm doing some work to connect practitioners in government around the use of open standards as we develop APIs, and our overall approach to data and digital services. That will complement other emerging …

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