Oliver Spindler, Tech Lead for front end development of the Performance Platform, explains how www.gov.uk/performance developed an innovative JavaScript workflow to allow performance data to be visible to everyone, while those on high-end browsers could have more powerful interactions. GOV.UK …
Other teams around government frequently ask us about our use of GitHub, and rather than bury those answers in email it seemed time to follow Mike Bracken’s directive and publish (not send) our answers. I’ve made some assumptions here about …
GDS is a busy place. We’ve got quite a few blogs running and many of us write elsewhere too. Here are a few recent things that may be of interest to those following the technology blog. Ben Firshman wrote about …
We're looking for up to nine more developers to work with us across GOV.UK, the Performance Platform and other GDS projects. There are loads of different types of work to do and we're looking for people with skills in backend …
This is the fourth piece in a series of the router component we deployed in front of GOV.UK towards the end of 2013. You may also want to read the previous posts in the series. In developing the router, we …
We've just put out an advert for Web Operations Engineers. We're looking for up to nine people to work with us across Identity Assurance, GOV.UK and the Performance Platform. There's loads to do building out, running and improving the infrastructure …
This post is now outdated. For a more up-to-date explanation of applying to GDS please read Applying for a job at GDS: update. Over the next few months we will be recruiting for a number of roles, including developers and …
Over the last ten weeks, I’ve been part of a small team that’s been building new tools to help us manage user needs better. You may have seen Lisa’s post about the user needs project back in October. I’m going …
GDS is a busy place. We've got quite a few blogs running and many of us write elsewhere too. We're going to try occasional round-ups here to flag other things our team has written that may be of interest to …
Having created a comprehensive set of code tests for the Router (which we'll write about in this series soon) we were reasonably confident that it would do the right job in production. But "reasonably confident" isn't good enough; we wanted …
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