A startup within government

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


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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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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

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Continuous delivery


Everyone does continuous integration


Right?


Right?!


Deployment pipeline



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Frequent value via frequent updates


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


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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


Money


£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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A startup within government