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Upgrade to version 2 of GOV.UK Notify’s API
GOV.UK Notify has a public API. The API allows government services to use GOV.UK Notify, to send notifications and to get information on the progress of those notifications. During our private beta,...
View ArticleIncident report: Platform as a Service for government
This post outlines a recent production issue on the Platform as a Service for government (PaaS) and how it was resolved. What happened At 3pm on Friday 16 September 2016, the ssl private key was...
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Webchat: the journey so far
GDS started looking at how to support services providing webchat last year. Since then we’ve completed a discovery and an alpha and we’ve published 8 posts on 4 GDS blogs about our user research,...
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User research for GOV.UK Platform as a Service
We’re building a Platform as a Service (PaaS) to make it easier to host digital services in government. We’re doing this because we know hosting is one of the most time-consuming barriers for...
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This post outlines a recent issue with the GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS), and how it was resolved. What happened On 15 December Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a DNS issue which caused...
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GOV.UK Notify is now open for use
Back in May last year GOV.UK Notify sent its first messages as part of our invite-only beta phase. Now - after 9 months, 3.5 million messages, 32 live services, 850 code deployments, and 500 hours of...
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What we're working on in Government as a Platform
As more services begin to adopt Government as a Platform components, we’ll publish regular updates here on this blog. We’ll blog about our progress developing these components, and our work to support...
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Guest post: How GOV.UK Notify helps the Valuation Office Agency stay in touch...
Meera Nayyar is a Customer Strategy Lead for the Valuation Office Agency (VOA). In this guest post, she writes about how the VOA is using GOV.UK Notify to keep businesses informed about changes to...
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Guest post: Environment Agency sends up to 40,000 fishing licences a day...
Mark Sherwood is a Delivery Manager for the Environment Agency and his colleague Mark Buttle is a Developer. In this guest post they talk about how they use GOV.UK Notify in their ‘I want to fish’...
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Portability and the GOV.UK PaaS
One of our principles in Government as a Platform (GaaP) is to avoid being tied to a single supplier. We often get asked how we’ll apply this principle to the GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS). This...
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