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Last updated: 18 May 2020
Learn how GOV.UK works
Welcome to GOV.UK! Let’s start off by saying that GOV.UK publishing system is quite complex. It can be daunting task to get to know the platform. This page is meant as a starter guide to learning about GOV.UK.
2nd line
- Access to Licensify for Third Parties
- Communicate when Slack is unavailable
- Licensify - supporting licensing
- On-call support
- Rules for getting production access
- Subject Access Request (SAR)
- Technical 2nd line
- Zendesk
A/B testing
Applications
- Architectural deep-dive of GOV.UK
- Architectural summary of GOV.UK
- Architecture overview of GOV.UK applications
- Configure linting
- Conventions for Rails applications
Assets
AWS
Backups
CDN & Caching
Content Data
Cookies
data.gov.uk
Dependencies
Deployment
Docker
Documentation
Emails
- Document Collection emails - a special case
- Email notifications: how they work
- Email signup journeys and email subscriptions across GOV.UK
- How we use GOV.UK Notify
Emergency Alerts
Frontend
- Analytics on GOV.UK
- Find a rails template based on a GOV.UK URL or vice verca
- Frontend architecture
- GA4 Implementation Record
- Google Tag Manager change process
- Guidance and tools for digital accessibility
- Local frontend development
- The component system
- Which browsers we support
GitHub
GOV.UK Account
Incidents
Infrastructure
- Domain Name System (DNS) records
- GOV.UK and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- GOV.UK’s environments (integration, staging, production)
- Rate Limiting
- Terraform Cloud
Learning GOV.UK
- Dictionary of concepts on GOV.UK
- How to be a good buddy
- Responsibilities of a Tech Lead
- Where to find what documentation
Logging
Monitoring and alerting
- Graphite and deployment dashboards
- PagerDuty
- Pingdom Bouncer canary check
- Screens that we have in the office
- Sentry
- Sidekiq
Publishing
- Finder schema guidance
- How the draft stack works
- How the topic taxonomy works
- How the world taxonomy works
- Related links
- What data we expose as schema.org structured data