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A collection of recent articles from blogs that I follow.
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Driving better outcomes through continuous support
Transformation is exciting, but can be intimidating at the same time. It also doesn't always go to plan. GDS Standards Assurance and UK Export Finance want to share our transformation journey, focusing on how we got to the point where we are doing the right things, in the right way, at the right...
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Just How Does Kidz Bop Censor Songs?
We looked at 19 years of albums to find out what gets the black bar.
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How GOV.UK Notify reliably sends text messages to users
The Notify team has adjusted its method of sending out text messages to maintain Notify's reliability. In this post we explain how it was done.
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Can You Tell When The Snow Started?
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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Identifying properties and streets in government data
The Geospatial Commission has announced that UPRN and USRN data will be openly accessible from July onwards, helping public sector organisations to streamline services and improve the quality of the data they hold.
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Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante
By Haruka Miyagawa & Kylee Peña Continue reading on Netflix TechBlog »
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Optimizing Ruby Lazy Initialization in TruffleRuby with Deoptimization
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Introducing the GOV.UK cloud guide
GDS is putting all of its cloud policy, guidance and case studies in one place to make it easier for public sector organisations to find the information and use the cloud.
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This is a guest post from Docker Captain Adrian Mouat who is Chief Scientist at Container Solutions, a cloud-native consultancy and Kubernetes Certified Service Provider. Adrian is the author of “Using Docker,” published by O’Reilly Media. He is currently developing Trow, a container image...
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The Evolution of the American Census
What do the questions reveal about American culture and society?
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Can You Get The Gloves Out Of The Box?
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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Awesome-Compose: Application samples for project development kickoff
Software systems have become quite complex nowadays. A system may consist of several distributed services, each one providing a specific functionality and being updated independently. Starting the development of a project of such complexity is sometimes time consuming, in particular when you are...
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Signposting technology security
We’ve updated our security guidance in the Technology Code of Practice so it helps teams build security into their projects from the start.
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Onboard New Engineers #withGusto
How to Onboard Your Own Engineering Teammates Hurray! That engineer that you interviewed a few weeks ago just signed and your manager asked you to help onboard them. You’re not the new hire’s manager, but you do know what it’s like to be an IC (individual contributor)