GOV.UK Notify

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

Posted by: Thomas Leese, Posted on: 16 May 2018 - Categories: 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

Posted by: GOV.UK Notify team, Posted on: 13 March 2018 - Categories: 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

Posted by: David Illsley, Posted on: 3 January 2017 - Categories: GaaP

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