Keeping tech docs up to date with Daniel the Manual Spaniel
GDS uses the doc-as-code approach to technical documentation, but keeping that content up to date is more of a challenge. Here’s how GDS technical writers and developers fixed the issue.
Add your API to the cross-government catalogue
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Rosalie Marshall, GDS, Lead Technology Advisor, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Open Source, Open Standards, Tools
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has created an API catalogue on GitHub to increase transparency across government, start conversations and improve data sharing.
What I like about being a developer at GDS
From new development processes to cultural practices, Chris gives the lowdown on how developing at GDS is different from other organisations.
10 things we learned from our API Community of Practice event
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Rosalie Marshall, GDS, Lead Technology Advisor, Posted on:
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Event, Transformation
Find out about the Canadian government’s cross-government API Store, how the DVSA improved staff morale with mobile working, tips on delivering APIs as a product manager and more.
Challenges of implementing alerts on a managed container service
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Venus Bailey, GDS, Technical Architect and Phil Potter, GDS, Senior Developer, Posted on:
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Open Source, Tools, Transformation
The GDS Reliability Engineering team had to find some inventive workarounds to get the Alertmanager open source software package working on a managed container service. Here’s a detailed look at how we did it.
Opening the GOV.UK Verify Hub source code
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William Palmer, GDS Lead Developer and Maisie Fernandes, GDS technical architect, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Verify, Open Source
The standards that underpin GOV.UK Verify have always been open but we started coding as a private project. Here’s a recap of our journey to coding in the open.
Global Day of Code Retreat 2018: tackling the Game of Life at GDS
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.
Emerging tech, code sharing and other things we talked about at StackTech 4
The cross-government event covered challenges the public sector needs to think about when considering the use of blockchain, voice assistants and artificial intelligence.
11 barriers to coding in the open and how to overcome them
The cross-government open source meetup addressed common barriers to coding in the open, from hacking fears to licensing confusion.
Improving our in-house rotas
At the Government Digital Service we've stopped using spreadsheets and software-as-a-service tools to manage our rotas and built our own app. We've open sourced the code, so you can use it too.
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