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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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Removing gsi-family domains from the public sector

Posted by: Nick Woodcraft, Domains Product Owner, CDDO, Posted on: 20 January 2023 - Categories: News
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Public sector organisations are no longer using gsi-family domains and therefore they are scheduled for removal by the beginning of April. Read this post to find out more.

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Help shape the future of FN4G

Posted by: Agatha Blake, Programme Delivery Manager, CDDO, Cabinet Office, Posted on: 7 November 2022 - Categories: Event, News, Security, Tools
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The Future Network for Government programme is launching pre-market engagement and industry consultation to help determine future ways of working - here the FN4G team explain the plans and announces a launch event.

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Solving an interesting problem with Sender Policy Framework records

Posted by: Terence Eden, Posted on: 11 July 2022 - Categories: Security
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The Securing Government Services team found and fixed a curious problem regarding email security

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Service Manual testing requirement changes for Internet Explorer 11

Posted by: Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development, GDS, Posted on: 16 June 2022 - Categories: Security, Tools

In this blog post, we explain the decision behind changing our testing requirements for Internet Explorer 11 in the Service Manual.

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How we fixed connection reset errors on GOV.UK Pay

Posted by: Kat Stevens, GDS Senior Developer and Jonathan Harden, GDS Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Posted on: 7 June 2022 - Categories: APIs, GOV.UK, GOV.UK Pay
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When the GOV.UK Pay team noticed some test payments were failing, they set about working out what was happening and how to fix it. Here’s what they did.

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New case study: how NHS Digital used API management to support APIs at scale

Posted by: Annie Streater, Technical Writer, CDDO, Posted on: 11 March 2022 - Categories: APIs, Data
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The Data Standards Authority and NHS Digital have published a case study about how NHS Digital used API management to build and maintain APIs more efficiently, securely and scalably.

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Upgrading Celery on GOV.UK Notify

Posted by: David McDonald, Tech Lead, GOV.UK Notify and Karl Chillmaid, Senior Content Designer, GOV.UK Notify, Posted on: 1 February 2022 - Categories: GOV.UK Notify, Tools

How we improved Notify’s performance by upgrading the software we use, and what we learned along the way.

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Introducing the government’s Chief Technology Officer Council

Posted by: Dan Bailey, CTO, CDDO, Posted on: 30 November 2021 - Categories: CTO Council, Open Source, Open Standards, Security, Tools, Transformation

Central Digital and Data Office's new Chief Technology Officer, Dan Bailey, outlines plans for the Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the CTO Council.

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Creating a new sustainability point for the Technology Code of Practice

Posted by: Lewis Dunne, Senior Policy Advisor, CDDO and Sophie Jenkins, Policy Advisor, CDDO, Posted on: 10 November 2021 - Categories: Transformation
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How the Technology Policy and spend controls teams aim to use technology to help make a greener government.

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A new standard of testing for GOV.UK

Posted by: Ben Thorner, Developer, GDS and Peter Hartshorn, Developer, GDS, Posted on: 8 October 2021 - Categories: GOV.UK, Tools
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How we consolidated the testing landscape for GOV.UK into a small number of practical rules that are bringing a new consistency to the way we test our code.

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