Feeds I follow
A collection of recent articles from blogs that I follow.
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As social media changes, so does GDS’s Playbook
New social media platforms and trends, and trends on these platforms, spring up all the time. To keep users of the GDS Social Media Playbook informed, Vanessa Schneider highlights key changes and updates.
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Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack
At Slack, we’ve gone through an evolution of our AWS infrastructure from the early days of running a few hand-built EC2 instances, all the way to provisioning thousands of EC2s instances across multiple AWS regions, using the latest AWS services to build reliable and scalable infrastructure. One...
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As part of our efforts to improve our APIs, we’re introducing updates on how we paginate over tracks. This only affects developers and apps…
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Developers lead cross-government collaboration on GOV.UK Notify
DIT’s data team explain how working in the open resulted in improvements to the GOV.UK Notify service.
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Can You Break A Very Expensive Centrifuge?
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those of you who want something bite-size and the Riddler Classic for those of you in the slow-puzzle...
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Migrating App Permissions and Access Tokens
Learn to migrate your legacy Dropbox app to the new scoped app model. This document guides you through permissions, scopes, short-lived tokens, and refresh tokens.
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The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus
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The Unsuspecting Beauty & Complexity of Web Forms
A form on a website may seem like a pretty trifling thing. A couple of text fields, a submit button, and you’re good to go, right? #lifeisgood Wrong! Forms are beautiful and complex creatures. You must dive beneath the surface and explore all the beautiful features that can help create a truly...
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Leading the digital, data and technology (DDaT) response to coronavirus
Chris Ferguson, Director of National, International, Research, Service Design and Assurance and DDaT COVID-19 Hub at the Government Digital Service, takes stock of how we responded to coronavirus (COVID-19) to date, and reflects on how GDS's past paved the way.
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Can You Reach The Summit First?
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those of you who want something bite-size and the Riddler Classic for those of you in the slow-puzzle...
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Getting Started with Docker Using Node – Part II
In part I of this series, we learned about creating Docker images using a Dockerfile, tagging our images and managing images. Next we took a look at running containers, publishing ports, and running containers in detached mode. We then learned about managing containers by starting, stopping and...
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Promoting gender equality and social inclusion through public procurement
The Global Digital Marketplace team and partners at Oxford Insights explain how governments can reform public procurement, making it more inclusive whilst opening up supply chains, giving access to marginalised communities and driving economic growth.
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A Data-Led Theory to Generationally Divide Dance Floors
Some age groups are more likely to recognize certain songs than others