StackTech is an unconference that brings together technologists from departments across the country. Unlike a traditional conference, attendees pitch ideas on the day and then run sessions. The third StackTech took place at the end of October this year. Summarising an …
I’ve been at GDS for the last 5 years and I’ve spent most of this time as a technical architect. I’d like to share how we’re tackling some of the biggest technical architecture challenges at the centre of government.
Technical Writer on Standards and Assurance, Khidr Suleman attended the cross-government Open Source meetup in London organised by GDS. Here’s a recap of the day’s events...
There are two big concerns government organisations have around making source code open. They want to know which subsets of the code should be kept closed and how to code in the open securely. To address these questions I’ve introduced two pieces of …
As technical writers at GDS we create technical documentation which includes instructions and supporting content for the products we build. We want to make our documentation consistent across all products, but also make it easier to work closely with our …
Technical Writer on GaaP, Jonathan Glassman, recently attended the API The Docs conference, organised by our very own technical writer community at GDS and Write the Docs. Find out what he learned...
Our job in the Infrastructure Team is to make sure GOV.UK is available. Find out how we've improved the uptime of GOV.UK by making our DNS more robust.
Writing about the work they did in March, David and Robin talk about the benefits of coding in the open.
Our team makes sure the GOV.UK infrastructure is up to date and maintained, while also providing infrastructure for new requirements. At the moment it’s our mission to “Upgrade the Things”, which involves a series of major updates to our …
In November 2016, roughly 2 years after the original StackTech unconference, we held StackTech2 in London, open to all cross-government technologists.
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