If Government can do it... • Gareth Rushgrove • GOTO 2013

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2013 http://gotocon.com Gareth Rushgrove - Web geek, GOV.UK ABSTRACT The Government Digital Service is a new unit of the UK Cabinet Office tasked with all things digital. It's made up of designers, developers,systems administrators, product managers and Government policy specialists - all building, running and helping to design large online government services. Our tools include agile, multidisciplinary teams with the ability to make fast decisions; close collaboration between developers, operations and information security specialists; and modern infrastructure and software as a service products. We look a lot like a startup. This will be a technical talk with lots of culture thrown in. We'll discuss how we shipped GOV.UK, including: - how we built our teams and technology to allow us to make changes to the live service daily - how we worked closely with security and auditing colleagues from day one, not just as an afterthought - how we moved infrastructure supplier quickly using modern configuration management tools and APIs - how we're now trying to spread some of these practices and approaches around a super large organisation - details of lots of the mistakes we made along the way https://twitter.com/gotocon https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConference http://gotocon.com Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter