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.
The benefits of continuous deployment on Find a job
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Barry Traish, DWP, Lead Agile Digital Delivery Manager for Find a job, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Jobs, Transformation
By making the switch to continuous deployment on one of the government’s busiest services, DWP has reduced downtime on Find a job and released updates faster to provide benefits to users.
Why we focus on frontend performance
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Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Performance, Transformation
The Government Digital Service recently updated guidance on frontend performance. We focus heavily on improving web performance as GOV.UK is accessed from various devices and connectivity. Here’s why you need to focus on it too.
Making GOV.UK pages load faster and use less data
We changed the way fonts load on GOV.UK to speed up loading times on old devices with slow connection speeds.
Changing our testing requirements for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10
Service team developers no longer need to test on Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 (old versions of IE) when following our ‘designing for different browsers and devices’ guidance.
Sticky elements: functionality and accessibility testing
In GOV.UK's Modelling Services team we looked at the possibility of using sticky functionality as part of our work with step by step navigation elements. Here’s what we found.
StackTech3: 10 topics that need cross-government collaboration
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Khidr Suleman, GDS Technical Writer and Terence Eden, Posted on:
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Transformation
StackTech is an unconference that brings together technologists from departments across the country. Unlike a traditional conference, attendees pitch ideas on the day and then run sessions. The third StackTech took place at the end of October this year. Summarising an …
Making the GOV.UK DNS more resilient
Our job in the Infrastructure Team is to make sure GOV.UK is available. Find out how we've improved the uptime of GOV.UK by making our DNS more robust.
Updating the GOV.UK Continuous Integration environment
Our team makes sure the GOV.UK infrastructure is up to date and maintained, while also providing infrastructure for new requirements. At the moment it’s our mission to “Upgrade the Things”, which involves a series of major updates to our …
Our top 12 mob programming tips and thoughts
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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