Incident Report: GOV.UK Platform as a Service
This post outlines a recent issue with GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS), and how it was resolved.
GOV.UK Platform as a Service
We’re building GOV.UK Government Platform as a Service (PaaS) to host a range of services so teams across government don’t have to build their own hosting stack. This will make it easier and cheaper for teams across government to host applications, services and platforms.
User research for GOV.UK Platform as a Service
Holly Challenger writes about findings from user research sessions run over the past 6 months, and how these sessions have shaped improvements to the GOV.UK Platform as a Service.
Incident 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.
Guest post: Lessons learned migrating the Trade Tariff service
This is the second guest post from Matthew Ford, the Technical Director of Bit Zesty, on the migration of the GOV.UK Trade Tariff service to the Platform as a Service for government (PaaS). Here Matthew writes about the technical lessons learned and how the Bit Zesty and PaaS teams resolved them.
We're hiring a senior product manager
We’re building a Platform as a Service, which will be used to host services from across GDS, and the rest of government. And, we’re looking for a senior product manager to help make this happen.
Guest post: Moving the first live service to the Platform as a Service for government
In July, the Trade Tariff became the first service to migrate to the Platform as a Service for government. In this post Matt Ford shares some of the benefits and challenges of the migration.
Incident Report: Platform as a Service for government
This post is about an incident on the 'Platform as a Service for government' production environment for hosting applications.
Platform as a Service for government goes west
We’re keen to spread the hosting and platform message, so we travelled to Swansea Tech Hub. This was an ideal opportunity for us to reach out to 60 people working in agencies across the south west including Met Office, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Intellectual Property Office, Office of National Statistics, and Companies House.
Hosting digital services moves from alpha to beta
Last time we blogged we talked a bit about building a platform to host digital services, and we told you about how we chose cloud foundry. Before we move on to what we are up to now, here is a quick reminder of what we are doing and why.
Choosing Cloud Foundry for the Government Platform as a Service
Technical architect, Anna Shipman, explains the reasons for choosing Cloud Foundry as the technology for Platform as a Service.