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Last month we launched the new online electoral registration service. This is the digital part of the wider Individual Electoral Registration (IER) policy. Pete has already blogged about how we engaged with lawyers while developing the service. In this post …
We recently completed an alpha on identity assurance for organisations. The objective of an alpha is to gain understanding of a service and validate a design approach by building a working prototype. As part of the alpha, we built a …
When I started working on vCloud Tools, we had most of our functionality in one repository. There wasn’t a clear separation of concerns – the code was tightly coupled – and it also meant that a user who only wanted …
We recently moved GOV.UK to a new and improved platform. We used vCloud Tools, open source software developed in-house at GDS, to create the virtual machines and networks required as well as configure the firewall, NAT rules and load balancers. Why …
Over the last few months, I’ve been leading a small team building tools to automate creation and configuration of our servers. Tools to automate provisioning Currently, our production environment is hosted with Skyscape, and we manage it using VMware vCloud …
On Tuesday night, we moved GOV.UK from one set of servers to another - with any luck, nobody noticed. Much of what we do at GDS is designed to be noticed in some way, usually because we are trying to …
Oliver Spindler, Tech Lead for front end development of the Performance Platform, explains how www.gov.uk/performance developed an innovative JavaScript workflow to allow performance data to be visible to everyone, while those on high-end browsers could have more powerful interactions. GOV.UK …
Other teams around government frequently ask us about our use of GitHub, and rather than bury those answers in email it seemed time to follow Mike Bracken’s directive and publish (not send) our answers. I’ve made some assumptions here about …
GDS is a busy place. We’ve got quite a few blogs running and many of us write elsewhere too. Here are a few recent things that may be of interest to those following the technology blog. Ben Firshman wrote about …
We're looking for up to nine more developers to work with us across GOV.UK, the Performance Platform and other GDS projects. There are loads of different types of work to do and we're looking for people with skills in backend …
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