Reuse your government's code

Tijmen Brommet Lead Developer, GOV.UK  Government Digital Service  @tijmenbr

Steal software from government!

GDS What if it worked for backend code too?

GDS Slides will be online at www.tijmen.cc/lrug

GDS 3 real world apps 3 cool patterns 3 things
to help big projects 3 clever team tools

A really big app

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GDS 8 years of code Rails 3 to Rails 5
lots of domain modelling running single app in 2 modes

A data warehouse

GDS collects data from our system & analytics uses a
star schema database

A new app

Readable feature specs

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Spam honeypot

Archiving big tables

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Conﬁgure lots of GitHub repos

GDS ✅ only allow merge commits ✅ protect master branch
✅ enforce CI checks ✅ add webhooks

Share frontend code

GDS app/views/components/_back_link.html.erb app/assets/stylesheets/components/_back-link.scss app/assets/javascripts/components/_back-link.js app/views/components/docs/back_link.yml

GDS example

Visual regression testing

Seal of approval

GitHub Trello Poster

Browser extension

GDS https://www.gov.uk/learn-to-drive-a-car https://www.staging.publishing.service.gov.uk/learn-to-drive-a-car https://www.integration.publishing.service.gov.uk/learn-to-drive-a-car http://www.dev.gov.uk/learn-to-drive-a-car https://www.gov.uk/api/content/learn-to-drive-a-car https://www.gov.uk/api/search.json?ﬁlter_link=/learn-to-drive-a-car https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/https://www.gov.uk/learn-to-drive-a-car etc etc

Want more?

GDS Want to code in the open too? We're hiring!
https://jobs.jobvite.com/gds

GDS Slides & links at www.tijmen.cc/lrug Thank you @tijmenbr

Reuse your government's code

Reuse your government's code

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