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4 things the GOV.UK PaaS team built during their firebreak

Posted by: Lee Porte, GOV.UK PaaS tech lead, GDS, Posted on: 9 August 2018 - Categories: Tools, Transformation

Here’s what the GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS) team worked on during its April firebreak.

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Our top 12 mob programming tips and thoughts

Posted by: Emma Beynon, Posted on: 8 September 2016 - Categories: Chat, GOV.UK, Tools
Post-it notes with mob programming details

Over the past few months, us developers on the GOV.UK Custom Formats team have been trying out a new approach to software development called mob programming. Instead of individual developers working on stories separately, mob programming involves a group of …

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Building a new router for GOV.UK

Posted by: nickstenning and James Stewart, Posted on: 5 December 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

This is part one of what will be a series of blog posts about the new dynamic HTTP router that serves GOV.UK. This post describes our original motivations in building the router, and some of our experiences building the prototypes …

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