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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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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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Working out how to open up the Register to Vote code

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 26 January 2016 - Categories: Chat

Over the course of the past few years many teams across government have begun publishing their code under open source licenses. That's a change that's been pushed by the Digital by Default Service Standard but it's just as much a …

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Opening GOV.UK's Puppet repository

Posted by: Alex Muller, Posted on: 19 January 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK, Open Source
Make things open it makes things better

Point 8 of the Digital by Default Service Standard that we publish on GOV.UK says that source code for government services should be open and reusable, and our 10th design principle is "Make things open: it makes things better". We …

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Being a GDS technical architect - Looking back over my first eight months

Posted by: John Strudwick, Posted on: 13 January 2016 - Categories: Chat

Becoming a “consulting” architect In the spring of 2015, after years working in technology, most recently in the fast-paced mobile sector, I joined the Government Digital Service as a technical architect and I blogged about it at the time.

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An open standards community for government

Posted by: James Stewart and Ade Adewunmi, Posted on: 18 December 2015 - Categories: Chat
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Meet Dan Appelquist. Dan’s just joined GDS to head up our work to build a community of practice around the use of (and contribution to) open standards in software projects across government. Here’s why that matters. What standards give us …

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Using jemalloc to get to the bottom of a memory leak

Posted by: oswald, frederico and thomaslee, Posted on: 11 December 2015 - Categories: Chat

At GOV.UK Verify we recently encountered a technical performance issue: a memory leak problem with our application that is responsible for any end-user facing functionality. We’ve been running extensive performance testing as we prepare for going live next April and …

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Applying the concept of Class Responsibility Cards to microservice architectures

Posted by: chrisholmes, Posted on: 16 November 2015 - Categories: GOV.UK Verify, Tools

On GOV.UK Verify, we’ve adopted a micro-services approach to our architecture

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Looking at open source PaaS technologies

Posted by: Anna Shipman, Posted on: 27 October 2015 - Categories: GaaP, Open Source

I’ve been working on a prototype of what a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for government might look like, as we wrote about in a previous post.

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Guaranteeing the integrity of a register

Posted by: Philip Potter, Posted on: 13 October 2015 - Categories: GaaP, Transformation

Last month we blogged about registers: authoritative lists you can trust. To recap, a register is a canonical source of data, with a clearly-defined custodian.

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An update on our radio buttons and checkboxes work

Posted by: Robin Whittleton, Posted on: 5 October 2015 - Categories: GOV.UK

Recently we talked about resizing checkboxes and radios; I thought I’d give a quick update as to what happened next.

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