A startup within government

James Abley @jableySaturday, 21 September 13

James AbleyTechnical ArchitectGovernment Digital Service@jabley

Saturday, 21 September 13

How we built GOV.UK

GDS and meHow GDS workArchitecture of GOV.UKOpen sourceContinuous delivery

Who am I

Big companiesStartupsAgenciesMeGDS

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What is GDS?

1. Create GDS2. Fix publishing3. Fix transactions4. Go wholesale

GDS Technical Architect

Who would do that?

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Passionate people working on stuff that matters

Lean Startup rather than Big IT

“most significant piece of UI guidance since Apple's in the 80s” - Tim O’Reilly

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Experiments

Data to test hypotheses

Iterate

“We believe in rough consensus and running code”

Building stuff is our super-power

No-one gets it right the first time

Constantly learning and improving

Are you meeting the user needs?

We believe in multi-disciplinary teams

ContentDesignDevelopmentUser Research

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Architecture

We want new problems

Failure is an option

Delay decisions until the last responsible moment

Swap out implementations as you learn more

The router

Use data to make decisions

Debugging distributed systems makes my head hurt

Open source

Coding in the open

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Valuation bands are based on levels of value on 1 April 1991,not what a property is worth today. This has been done by theListing Officer for the Valuation Office Agency of the InlandRevenue.

Council Tax for 2013/14

Band Westminster City Council Greater London Authority Total

A 251.83 202.00 453.83

B 293.80 235.67 529.47

C 335.77 269.33 605.10

D 377.74 303.00 680.74

E 461.68 370.33 832.01

F 545.62 437.67 983.29

G 629.57 505.00 1,134.57

H 755.48 606.00 1,361.48

Increase 0% -1.2% -0.6%

The bands and their values are as follows

Valuation Band Values

A Up to £40,000

B £40,001 to £52,000

C £52,001 to £68,000

D £68,001 to £88,000

E £88,001 to £120,000

F £120,001 to £160,000

G £160,001 to £320,000

H More than £320,000

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Continuous delivery

Everyone does continuous integration

Right?

Right?!

Deployment pipeline

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Frequent value via frequent updates

Average 6 releases a day over last 6 months

Launch day had lowest number of changes

It’s the risk, stupid!

One-click deploys

Single placeto deploy

Change one thing at once

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We use a physical token

Developers wantvisibility of deploys

Organisation want auditability of deploys

App showing deploys

Configuration management

Responding to security issues

Remote Code Exploit

Own all the problems

Benefits

SimplerClearerFaster

Attract and retain talent

£42 million

1,26 billion CZK

£50 million

1,5 billion CZK

We’re just getting started

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James AbleyTechnical ArchitectGovernment Digital Service@jabley

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