Hosting the beta of GOV.UK
...our databases to Amazon without making any changes to our code. That means that if we were to later decide to move that code to another hosting environment we would...
...our databases to Amazon without making any changes to our code. That means that if we were to later decide to move that code to another hosting environment we would...
...of Puppet, a configuration management system that lets us describe in code how we want our servers configured. Puppet lets a developer lay out a set of components that they...
...code from the off. Working with my colleagues, we have introduced this technique to the design process of GOV.UK in reaction to the rapid development cycles and number of iterations...
...developers and our web operations team can summon virtual servers at will, often using code we've written to talk to APIs from the IaaS provider We pay for what we...
...our own code to make sure we're building the best product we can in a way we can maintain. One of my fellow GDS architects, Paul Downey, has often likened...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xjBp5EWOHM Highlights: The 1000th code release on GOV.UK - that's about seven every working day. We also created a team within HMRC to extend the way we've been working out...
...Force. We’ve also actually started cracking code, or writing code, on the Beta for the Carers’ Allowance transaction. We’ve also managed to hire some Agile coaches into a couple of...
...proportions. What was the solution? So @tombaromba hacked some code in the GOV.UK homepage (similar to an approach inspired by an experiment Yahoo! Conducted in 2010). We chose this page...
...the “web platform” as opposed to anything else. Design and sketching was done in code for speed. Google Chrome running in fullscreen mode displays the Heroku page when a connection...
...All of the designers can code or are learning to code. We call ourselves the Design Team because it's important to belong to a group with shared skills and experiences....