A startup within government

A startup within government
James Abley @jabley
Saturday, 21 September 13

James Abley
Technical Architect
Government Digital Service
@jabley

How we built GOV.UK
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GDS and me
How GDS work
Architecture of GOV.UK
Open source
Continuous delivery
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Who am I
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Big companies
Startups
Agencies
Me
GDS
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http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ArchitectsPlayGolf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Golfer_swing.jpg

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/benterrett/6852348725/

http://devopsweekly.com/

What is GDS?
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1. Create GDS
2. Fix publishing
3. Fix transactions
4. Go wholesale
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GDS
Technical
Architect

Who would do that?
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Insert traditional
picture of Stanners

Passionate people
working on stuff that
matters
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Lean Startup rather
than Big IT
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“most signiﬁcant
piece of UI guidance
since Apple's in the
80s” - Tim O’Reilly
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https://github.com/psd/gds-design-principles

Experiments
Data to test hypotheses
Iterate
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“We believe in rough
consensus and running
code”
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Building stuff is our
super-power
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No-one gets it right
the ﬁrst time
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Constantly learning
and improving
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Are you meeting the
user needs?
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We believe in multi-
disciplinary teams
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Content
Design
Development
User Research
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Architecture
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We want new
problems
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Failure is an option
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Delay decisions until
the last responsible
moment
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Swap out
implementations as
you learn more
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The router
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Use data to make
decisions
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Debugging
distributed systems
makes my head hurt
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Open source
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Coding in the open
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Someday all
government websites
will look like this
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Continuous delivery
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Everyone does
continuous
integration
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Right?
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Right?!
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Deployment pipeline
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http://continuousdelivery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/pipeline_sequence.png

Frequent value via
frequent updates
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Average 6 releases a
day over last 6
months
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Launch day had
lowest number of
changes
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It’s the risk, stupid!
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One-click deploys
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Single place
to deploy
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Change one thing at
once
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/fatty/9158066939
We use a
physical token

Developers want
visibility of deploys
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Organisation want
auditability of deploys
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App showing
deploys
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Conﬁguration
management
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Responding to
security issues
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Remote Code Exploit
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Own all the problems
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Beneﬁts
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Simpler
Clearer
Faster
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Attract and retain
talent
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Money
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£42 million
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1,26 billion CZK
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£50 million
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1,5 billion CZK
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We’re just getting
started
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https://www.gov.uk/service-manual
https://github.com/alphagov
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