Making Government Digital Services Fast
summary
Built a single GOV.UK site that replaces thousands of pages and serves far more successful visits, launched by switching old sites off and handling about 1 million users on day one. Performance work uses a CDN, Varnish and nginx, replaced slow redirect handling to jump from ~8 to ~400 requests/sec on a box and cut reboot pain from 35 minutes to seconds. Fonts are self‑hosted and halved; analytics and dashboards drive fixes and a 26-point standard governs rollout.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:09GOV.UK launch and design
- 6:59Simplifying services via user needs
- 8:04Fonts and UX optimization
- 9:26Switching off old sites
- 10:51NGINX performance
- 11:34Modern scaling approaches
- 12:37Instrumenting with data
- 13:41Analytics to platforms
- 14:02Franchising practices
- 14:45Conclusion and Q&A
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