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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.
A/B testing
Applications
- Architectural deep-dive of GOV.UK
- Architectural summary of GOV.UK
- Architecture overview of GOV.UK applications
- Conventions for Rails applications
Assets
Authentication and authorisation
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
- 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
Incident management
Incident response
Infrastructure
- Domain Name System (DNS) records
- 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
- Zendesk
Licensing
Logging
Monitoring and alerting
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