Improving the Technology Code of Practice for local authorities
The GDS Technology Policy team outlines improvements to the Technology Code of Practice to make it more relevant to all government organisations.
It’s ok to experiment with emerging technology
Emerging technologies are creating lots of buzz and the Government Digital Service (GDS) has released guidance on how the public sector should think about using these solutions.
Using agile architecture across government
Our second CTA drop-in session focused on agile architectures and how we can use these across government.
How we designed and built a new network for our office move
Find out how our IT team built our internal network when we moved to our Whitechapel office.
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.
We’ve added Samsung Internet to our browser testing recommendations
We update our browser testing recommendations in the Service Manual every 6 months. Samsung Internet is the latest addition to our list to test your service in.
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 …
Gaining understanding of the browsers people use
GOV.UK gets a lot of visits from people in the UK and further afield. We keep a record of all visits and use this data to support as many users as possible. Deciding which browsers to test We’ll try to …
How our Government PaaS team solved an AWS packet mystery
Our team is building a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for government so developers can quickly and easily host websites. We’re using the open source Cloud Foundry (CF) technology to ensure reliable hosting, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our …
CDN acceptance testing for GOV.UK
GOV.UK has used a Content Delivery Network (CDN) since its transition from beta to live in October 2012. When the contract with our first CDN provider came to an end in September 2013, we took advantage of what we'd learned …
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