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Our technology choices

Posted by: Justin Cook, Posted on: 24 March 2016 - Categories: Government Platform
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As we move from Discovery to Alpha we are now starting to test our technology options. This blog explains why we have chosen OpenStack, Ansible, Docker containers and Kubernetes. In the last 15 years the technology community has seen the …

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QR codes and licence validation

Posted by: Chris Lockie, Posted on: 21 March 2016 - Categories: Government Platform, Licensing & Permissions
Part of a new digital licence

An important aspect of export licensing is the ability of customs officials to check whether goods are being taken out of the UK under a valid licence. This is one of the challenges of the new import/export licensing system; currently …

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Searching for alpha

Posted by: Chris Lockie, Posted on: 2 March 2016 - Categories: Government Platform, Licensing & Permissions

Two weeks of calm after discovery, and suddenly the controlled mayhem of alpha is upon us. For the next phase of the import/export licensing project, which is yet to have had a shiny new acronym bestowed upon it, our previously …

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