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Laying the foundations for a digital Land Registry

Posted by: Steve Railton, HM Land Registry, Deputy Director, Digital Data and Technology Directorate, Posted on: 26 February 2019 - Categories: Transformation
A mobile device with a digital overlay - symbolising the creation of a digital registry

HM Land Registry talks through the steps it's taking to modernise and how it’s going to meet the needs of users in the digital world.

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Global Day of Code Retreat 2018: tackling the Game of Life at GDS

Posted by: Jonathan Kerr and Yanny Thompson, Posted on: 9 January 2019 - Categories: Event
Developers working in pairs during Code Retreat

The Government Digital Service hosted an event for developers as part of the Global Day of Code Retreat. Find out what we did and why we set them an impossible challenge.

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The benefits of migrating GOV.UK Pay’s codebase to the GOV.UK Design System

Posted by: Jon Heslop, GDS Front End Developer, Posted on: 21 December 2018 - Categories: GOV.UK, Transformation
Working on templates on GOV.UK Pay

The GOV.UK Pay team has made significant performance improvements by using the GOV.UK Design System. Find out what our migration process was like and how your service can benefit too.

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Updating the GDS technical documentation tool

Posted by: Jonathan Glassman, GDS Technical writer, Posted on: 7 December 2018 - Categories: Tools
Two writers looking at content in the technical documentation tool

The Government Digital Service aims to make technical documentation simple and easy to understand. We've updated our documentation tool to improve the user experience by adding multi-pages, collapsible navigation and more.

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Building, testing and iterating our monitoring and alerting service

Posted by: David McDonald, Tech Lead, GOV.UK Notify, Posted on: 9 November 2018 - Categories: Tools
The reliability engineering observe team

Find out how the GDS internal monitoring and alerting service works and how we’re improving our documentation with user research.

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Emerging tech, code sharing and other things we talked about at StackTech 4

Posted by: Sunitha Elizabeth Chacko, Posted on: 7 November 2018 - Categories: Event, Transformation

The cross-government event covered challenges the public sector needs to think about when considering the use of blockchain, voice assistants and artificial intelligence.

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Using agile architecture across government

Posted by: Seyed Razavi, Posted on: 12 October 2018 - Categories: Event

Our second CTA drop-in session focused on agile architectures and how we can use these across government.

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Join us to discuss future technology trends at StackTech 4

Posted by: Sunitha Elizabeth Chacko, Posted on: 17 September 2018 - Categories: Event
A group discussing consumer driven contract testing

Join us at our next cross-government technology event on 18 October.

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How we designed and built a new network for our office move

Posted by: Mohamed Hamid, Posted on: 12 September 2018 - Categories: Transformation

Find out how our IT team built our internal network when we moved to our Whitechapel office.

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Our approach to updating Open Standards

Posted by: The Open Standards team, Posted on: 7 September 2018 - Categories: Transformation
Make things open it makes them better

Why we keep track of Open Standards using static versioning instead of automatically updating them.

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