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How we load-tested our email notification system when moving to GOV.UK Notify

Thomas Leese, 16 May 2018 - Tools

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.

Scaling GOV.UK Notify to send 500 million messages a year

GOV.UK Notify team, 13 March 2018 - GOV.UK

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.

A whitelisting approach for cloud APIs

David Illsley, 3 January 2017 - GaaP

One common and powerful security measure you can apply to a system is controlling which other networks and computers it can talk to.

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How we load-tested our email notification system when moving to GOV.UK Notify

Scaling GOV.UK Notify to send 500 million messages a year

A whitelisting approach for cloud APIs

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