GOV.UK
4 things the GOV.UK PaaS team built during their firebreak
Here’s what the GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS) team worked on during its April firebreak.
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Building a tool to improve our GitHub security
GitHub plays a major role in the software supply chain at GDS. All our source code is stored in GitHub - mainly in Alphagov - and we work hard to make sure our repositories are secure.
Changing our testing requirements for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10
Service team developers no longer need to test on Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 (old versions of IE) when following our ‘designing for different browsers and devices’ guidance.
Sticky elements: functionality and accessibility testing
In GOV.UK's Modelling Services team we looked at the possibility of using sticky functionality as part of our work with step by step navigation elements. Here’s what we found.
How we load-tested our email notification system when moving to GOV.UK Notify
This post explains how our GOV.UK Email team used load testing and code profiling when migrating to GOV.UK Notify to make sure we could continue to send out 1 million emails per hour during peak times.
Build your Docs career: Come and join us in June 2018
There are many different tools and skills required for different content roles, and these requirements vary by job and over time. Writing technical documentation is a specialised role, and because of this us documenters often have to take responsibility for …
Introducing the GDS Consulting Technical Architects
The Consulting Technical Architect team is part of the Service Design and Assurance group at GDS. Read on to find out who we are, what we do and how we can help your organisation.
Progressive Web Apps bring us new mobile opportunities
When the public sector is designing services, there’s often a need to consider mobile applications. Until recently this meant creating a service for the web and then in some limited cases, creating separate native mobile apps.
Scaling GOV.UK Notify to send 500 million messages a year
Our colleagues in the GOV.UK Email team send out notification emails to around 750,000 GOV.UK users who have signed up for alerts about significant content changes.
We’ve added Samsung Internet to our browser testing recommendations
We update our browser testing recommendations in the Service Manual every 6 months. Samsung Internet is the latest addition to our list to test your service in.