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Spotlight – a pure JavaScript application for GOV.UK Performance
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 …
How GDS uses git and github
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 …
Other things GDS has been writing lately
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 …
Jobs: Developer
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 …
Validating the router's behaviour
This is the fourth piece in a series of the router component we deployed in front of GOV.UK towards the end of 2013. You may also want to read the previous posts in the series. In developing the router, we …
Jobs: Web Operations Engineer
We've just put out an advert for Web Operations Engineers. We're looking for up to nine people to work with us across Identity Assurance, GOV.UK and the Performance Platform. There's loads to do building out, running and improving the infrastructure …
Applying for a job at GDS
This post is now outdated. For a more up-to-date explanation of applying to GDS please read Applying for a job at GDS: update. Over the next few months we will be recruiting for a number of roles, including developers and …
Taking an API-first approach for user needs
Over the last ten weeks, I’ve been part of a small team that’s been building new tools to help us manage user needs better. You may have seen Lisa’s post about the user needs project back in October. I’m going …
Other things GDS is writing this week (or so)
GDS is a busy place. We've got quite a few blogs running and many of us write elsewhere too. We're going to try occasional round-ups here to flag other things our team has written that may be of interest to …
Putting the Router through its paces
Having created a comprehensive set of code tests for the Router (which we'll write about in this series soon) we were reasonably confident that it would do the right job in production. But "reasonably confident" isn't good enough; we wanted …