Re:The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard
by samhw on Sunday January 23, 2022 @11:44AM
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> Even though gov.uk is actually a really good IT company
For anyone who's wondering, the relevant team here is GDS[0]. We hired a bunch of engineers from there at one of my previous companies - which was doing some quite gnarly technical work - and they were superb. I believe the US equivalent is 18F.
[0] The Government Digital Service in full, but no definite article for the initialism.
Re:The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard
by ghassanmas on Sunday January 23, 2022 @10:18AM
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To be accurte, it's not completely Micrsoft agnostic, it make use case for a PSQL extension citus[1], the company behind this extension has been acquired by Microsoft two years ago[2].
[1]: https://github.com/citusdata/citus
[2]: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquir...
Maybe, I'm naive, or not cynical enough, but I just read this as a case study of customer using Azure to provide the general public with information in a robust fashion.
In fact, if anything, the whole article is remarkably light on pushing Azure, and quite heavy on architecture details.
The open source code (on Github) uses Postgres (not MSSQL), and Python (not C# or Powershell), and in fact has a screen shot of Jetbrain's Pycharm, and not VSCode.
In fact it's probably quite an MS agnostic article.
Even though gov.uk is actually a really good IT company, I'm quite pleased that they're using "the cloud" rather than trying to create their own.