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 …
I’ve been at GDS for the last 5 years and I’ve spent most of this time as a technical architect. I’d like to share how we’re tackling some of the biggest technical architecture challenges at the centre of government.
Technical Writer on Standards and Assurance, Khidr Suleman attended the cross-government Open Source meetup in London organised by GDS. Here’s a recap of the day’s events...
There are two big concerns government organisations have around making source code open. They want to know which subsets of the code should be kept closed and how to code in the open securely. To address these questions I’ve introduced two pieces of …
StackTech is a cross-government unconference that brings together technologists to discuss common issues and solutions. The event is a great opportunity to network and meet new people. Our third StackTech will be held on 24 October from 09:30 to 16:00 …
As an Open Source community member, you are responsible for handling any security issues you identify. This post provides an example of a security issue we encountered and resolved by working with the project security team.
In November 2016, roughly 2 years after the original StackTech unconference, we held StackTech2 in London, open to all cross-government technologists.
In June we blogged about work we were doing to update our security guidelines for government digital services. Since then we've been busy working with teams across government to update services ready for the changes. Thank you to the teams …
At GOV.UK Verify we take users’ security very seriously. Online security is constantly changing, and we need to be up to date at all times. We regularly update the service’s frontend to ensure it’s running the most secure and recent …
Back in 2014 we held an unconference aimed at creating a conversation between technologists across government. The event, dubbed StackTech, turned out to be a big success and led to discussions still going on today, like how to improve reuse …
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