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Upgrading Celery on GOV.UK Notify

Posted by: David McDonald, Tech Lead, GOV.UK Notify and Karl Chillmaid, Senior Content Designer, GOV.UK Notify, Posted on: 1 February 2022 - Categories: GOV.UK Notify, Tools

How we improved Notify’s performance by upgrading the software we use, and what we learned along the way.

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Managing GDS’s internal infrastructure during lockdown

Posted by: Mohamed Hamid, GDS Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Internal Infrastructure), Posted on: 21 May 2020 - Categories: Tools, Transformation
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GDS’s internal IT infrastructure was built to support flexible working, so here’s how we were able to adapt to a completely remote workforce.

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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
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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.  

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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.

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An allow list approach for cloud APIs

Posted by: David Illsley, Posted on: 3 January 2017 - Categories: GaaP
Picture of a cloud with GOV.UK Notify and GOV.UK Pay written inside. There are 4 entry points to the cloud with one of them blocked with a cross.

07 August 2020 update: We’ve updated this post to remove references to ‘whitelisting’ and ‘whitelists’. GDS has updated its style guide to ban references to the racist terms ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’. We now use ‘allow list’ and ‘block list’ instead. …

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