How we migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
GOV.UK Notify recently migrated our production database. Find out how we did it with the least possible disruption to our users.
GOV.UK Notify
GOV.UK Notify lets public sector services send emails, text messages and letters.
Find out more on the Notify features page
Notify’s product strategy and upcoming features
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Irina Pencheva, Lead Product Manager - GOV.UK Forms and GOV.UK Notify, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Notify
Outlining our three goals to ensure we continue to offer a great product for the best value for money.
How we let GOV.UK Notify users set their own branding
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Pea Tyczynska - Developer at GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Notify
Find out how the Notify team made it quicker and easier for services to add the right logo to their emails and letters.
Understanding user satisfaction on GOV.UK Notify
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Ia Croxton - Senior User Researcher for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Notify, User research
What GOV.UK Notify learned by sending this year’s satisfaction survey to more people.
How rewriting text messages can help services to save money
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Karl Chillmaid - Senior Content Designer for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms, GOV.UK Notify, Transformation
GOV.UK Notify helped Leicester City Council to reduce the cost of the messages it sends. All it took was a little content design.
Join the user research panel for GDS products and services
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Andy Parker - Senior User Researcher for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms, GOV.UK Notify, GOV.UK Pay, Service design, User research
We’re launching a new way for civil and public servants to help us iterate the Government Digital Service’s digital products and services.
Government as a Platform (GaaP) milestones
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Roxane Heaton - former Director for Digital, Data and Technology; Central Digital and Data Office, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms, GOV.UK Notify, GOV.UK Pay
Government as a Platform (GaaP) products make it quicker and cheaper to create digital services. This month we're celebrating 4 milestones.
Developers lead cross-government collaboration on GOV.UK Notify
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Liz Catherall - Delivery Manager, Department for International Trade, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Notify, Ways of working
DIT’s data team explain how working in the open resulted in improvements to the GOV.UK Notify service.
Can GOV.UK Notify help the public sector write better emails, text messages and letters?
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Karl Chillmaid - Senior Content Designer for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Notify, User research
The GOV.UK Notify team wants to use content design to save the public sector time and money. We’re looking for volunteers to help us work out how.
How Government as a Platform is meeting challenges posed by coronavirus
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Miriam Raines - former Product Manager for GOV.UK Pay, Government Digital Service and Mark Buckley - former Product Manager for GOV.UK PaaS, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms, GOV.UK, GOV.UK Notify, GOV.UK Pay
Many public sector organisations are feeling pressure on their services because of coronavirus. Read about the products that Government as a Platform offers that help continue essential delivery of services, and support the development of new services required by the situation.
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Be part of the transformation
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.