Modernise file transfers with APIs
summary
Built a whole‑of‑government file transfer platform (CFT) that launched Feb 2024 and already routes transfers between over 500 systems across 1,500 workflows, serving 70 subscriber projects and handling 1.7 million municipal cases annually. It implements 15+ OpenAPI‑first APIs, a Go backend, JWT/OIDC auth, SDKs and webhooks, and runs on AWS using S3, RDS, ECS, Transfer Family, with multi‑engine malware scanning, CDR, PGP support and SFTP — production traffic and monitoring show it works.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:49Legacy transfer challenges
- 4:18New solution vision
- 6:24Pilot success with LifeSG
- 7:51Adoption and future plans
- 9:01Technical journey of CFT
- 12:10Feature expansion needs
- 13:14Agency self-service portal
- 16:26CFT core components
- 17:31API design and development
- 19:56API error handling
- 20:18Security and compliance
- 21:41Scalability optimisation
- 22:45Monitoring insights
- 23:05Q&A
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