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Putting the Router through its paces

Posted by: Dan Carley, Posted on: 13 December 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

Having created a comprehensive set of code tests for the Router (which we'll write about in this series soon) we were reasonably confident that it would do the right job in production. But "reasonably confident" isn't good enough; we wanted …

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Choosing Go for a new project

Posted by: Brad Wright, Posted on: 9 December 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

As you read in the previous post in this series, we have built a frontline router using Go. If you cast an eye across our many and varied open source projects, the common theme is that they're generally written in …

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Building a new router for GOV.UK

Posted by: nickstenning and James Stewart, Posted on: 5 December 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

This is part one of what will be a series of blog posts about the new dynamic HTTP router that serves GOV.UK. This post describes our original motivations in building the router, and some of our experiences building the prototypes …

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About the Technology in government blog

Posted by: GDS team, Posted on: 29 November 2013 - Categories: News

GDS began blogging when it launched. As we grew, we set up multiple blogs with the Technology blog explaining the nitty gritty of how we build, assemble and run software. Over the years we've blogged about building and running a …

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