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Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by jraph » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 12:58 PM UTC

was_a_dev wrote: post #9

Is the text rendering really poorly for anyone else? I've not had such issues on the goverment website before. The issue seems to be with Firefox, there's no issue in Edge. I assume Chrome would be fine as well

The page renders perfectly with Firefox on Ubuntu. Either blocking or allowing web fonts.

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by hugoromano » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 1:07 PM UTC

Sounds lovely but limits competition and innovation, promoting oligopolies. I admire the nerve of "10% Procurement fee". Wait until there is a guideline that demands the use of GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS) for the UK Public sector. A sensible approach would have been a list of certified service providers and contact points for contracting.

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by iso1631 » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 1:08 PM UTC

was_a_dev wrote: post #9

Is the text rendering really poorly for anyone else? I've not had such issues on the goverment website before. The issue seems to be with Firefox, there's no issue in Edge. I assume Chrome would be fine as well

Looks fine to me on Ubuntu

https://imgur.com/35cLwPH.png

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by Hallucinaut » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 1:18 PM UTC

buggeryorkshire wrote: post #2

This is a good thing. But not for ukcloud, who are still the worst provider in this space.

Probably a bit unfair. They were early to the market and met all the usual UK Govt. paper-firewall rules well before the hyperscalers were viable options. It's just they haven't found a good fit in between the global forces of G.A.A and the legacy Fujitsu datacentre style approach and the Govt. has become somewhat more pragmatic over cloud for many workloads.

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by rorymalcolm » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 1:22 PM UTC

This is part of a wider suite of tools developed and run by the Government Digital Service including Notify (lets you send texts, letters and emails, https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/) and Pay (lets you take inbound payments quickly, https://www.payments.service.gov.uk/).

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by dj_mc_merlin » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 1:42 PM UTC

While this makes complete sense I feel like I slept for 10 years and woke up in Looney Tunes universe where the Gov wants to sell you EC2 instances.

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by pimlottc » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 1:44 PM UTC

See also cloud.gov for the US Federal government.

https://cloud.gov/ https://github.com/cloud-gov

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by toyg » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 2:01 PM UTC

dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #16

While this makes complete sense I feel like I slept for 10 years and woke up in Looney Tunes universe where the Gov wants to sell you EC2 instances.

They are not selling it to you, but "public sector services". It's effectively the national government telling the various bureaucracies "hey, we got this cool service over here, easy to use and probably cheaper than what you are doing - give it a spin maybe?"

In more "Napoleonic" countries the State would just mandate adoption and you'd never know it, but in the UK the public sector is awfully balkanized, so there is a need for public marketing.

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 2:03 PM UTC

dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #16

While this makes complete sense I feel like I slept for 10 years and woke up in Looney Tunes universe where the Gov wants to sell you EC2 instances.

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Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by trhoad » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

Not sure why this is here (it's been in use for a while), but for the uninitiated, the GOV.UK PaaS is an abstraction over AWS that helps to standardise what has historically been a fragmented approach to hosting applications.