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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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Taking another look at GOV.UK's disaster recovery

Posted by: Kushal Pisavadia, Posted on: 27 August 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Tools

As GOV.UK gets bigger, we often need to revisit the ways that we originally solved some problems. One thing that's changed recently is how we prepare for disaster recovery. Disaster Recovery The reality of working in technology is that software …

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Improving accessibility on GOV.UK search

Posted by: Alice Bartlett, Posted on: 14 August 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK

Today a minor change to our main site search went live. I hope it is an improvement in the experience of searching the site using a screen reader. The problem Here is the search page on GOV.UK. It has a …

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Using Mustache with the Play Framework

Posted by: Tom Byers, Posted on: 5 August 2014 - Categories: Tools, Transformation

One of the more interesting stories that came out of our work on Individual Electoral Registration (IER) was our adoption of Mustache, a logic-less templating language.

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Open standards for contact details and calendar events

Posted by: Paul Downey, Posted on: 28 July 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK

Hello, I’d like to draw your collective attention to two challenges for open standards: exchange of calendar events exchange of contact information The date of the next bank holiday is one of the top needs answered by GOV.UK. I like …

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Under the hood of IER

Posted by: Martyn Inglis, Posted on: 10 July 2014 - Categories: Transformation

Last month we launched the new online electoral registration service. This is the digital part of the wider Individual Electoral Registration (IER) policy. Pete has already blogged about how we engaged with lawyers while developing the service. In this post …

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Prototyping in Clojure

Posted by: Philip Potter, Posted on: 7 July 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK Verify

We recently completed an alpha on identity assurance for organisations. The objective of an alpha is to gain understanding of a service and validate a design approach by building a working prototype. As part of the alpha, we built a …

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Using Git to refactor vCloud Tools into separate gems

Posted by: Anna Shipman, Posted on: 4 June 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Open Source, Tools

When I started working on vCloud Tools, we had most of our functionality in one repository. There wasn’t a clear separation of concerns – the code was tightly coupled – and it also meant that a user who only wanted …

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How we used vCloud Tools to provision a new platform

Posted by: Matt Bostock, Posted on: 21 May 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Open Source, Tools

We recently moved GOV.UK to a new and improved platform. We used vCloud Tools, open source software developed in-house at GDS, to create the virtual machines and networks required as well as configure the firewall, NAT rules and load balancers. Why …

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Building tools to provision our machines

Posted by: Anna Shipman, Posted on: 7 May 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Open Source, Tools

Over the last few months, I’ve been leading a small team building tools to automate creation and configuration of our servers. Tools to automate provisioning Currently, our production environment is hosted with Skyscape, and we manage it using VMware vCloud …

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Migrating GOV.UK to new infrastructure

Posted by: Sam Sharpe, Posted on: 28 March 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK

On Tuesday night, we moved GOV.UK from one set of servers to another - with any luck, nobody noticed. Much of what we do at GDS is designed to be noticed in some way, usually because we are trying to …

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