Jan 31, 2021

#124

This deployed a day late as my Concourse instance fell over.

Work

Shifting gears

This week we’ve changed focus away from building an authentication solution towards personalisation, a very nebulous term which seems to mean different things to different people. The Transition Checker will be going away at some point1, so we need to branch out and integrate with something else on GOV.UK to avoid losing our current cohort of users.

So to that end I’ve opened an RFC to discuss what it’ll look like to have a GOV.UK-wide login session. There are a few challenges with our current architecture which make this tricky:

Prototypes? (again)

Last week I mused whether our apps were still prototypes, as they’re running in production and we’re iterating them. This week I’m a bit closer to an answer, which I think is “yes, they are”.

There’s been some more discussions on what exactly the division of work between GOV.UK and Digital Identity will be and, while there are still big unknowns, I think the future is beginning to clear up.

Books

This week I read:


  1. Now that Transition is, after all, done.↩︎