Technology community (technical architecture)
The cross-government technical architecture community exists to:
- share knowledge and information about technical architecture for government services
- discuss and challenge the way technical architecture works for government services
- bring together people from across government with an interest in technical architecture
Who the community is for
You might be interested in this community if you’re involved in any aspect of technical architecture, for example:
- choosing technology (eg languages, frameworks or software) for a service
- giving technology advice and being the technical voice in conversations about service design
- making a service secure
- testing the security and performance of a service
You do not need to be a technical architect to join.
Join the community
Online
Join the UK government Slack, which has several technology-related channels (you can create a Slack account using your government email address).
Training and events
The community holds regular:
- cross-government architecture lunches
- cross-government architecture drinks
These alternate on a monthly basis.
You can find information about meetups in the technical architects Google group.
Resources
The technology in government blog documents how technologists across government are building, assembling and running digital and technology projects.
Technical architecture in the Service Manual
These guides show what we currently believe to be best practice for technical architecture in government:
- Choosing your technology: an introduction
- Making source code open and reusable
- Using HTTPS
- Exploratory testing
- Quality assurance: testing your service regularly
- Vulnerability and penetration testing
- Test your service’s performance
- Moving away from legacy systems
- Working with open standards
- Protecting your service against fraud
- How to email your users
- Working with cookies and similar technologies
- Securing your information
- Securing your cloud environment
Help us keep the Service Manual up to date by:
- contributing to community discussions
- telling us if something is wrong or out of date using the feedback link at the top of each guide
- Last update:
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Removed link to technical architects Google group, which no longer exists.
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Added guide to 'Moving away from legacy systems'.
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Guidance first published