On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:07:42 +0100 Dennis Dryden ddryden@gmail.com allegedly wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:21 PM, mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/govuk-launch-colophon/
What do you think?
After a very quick scan of the first page it seems good to me. Lots of interesting tech: ruby, nginx, nodejs, ganglia, statsd, varnish, puppet...
What do you think?
Dennis
I agree, interesting range of technology.
But my query was partly ironic. I declare an interest in HMG websites. I built the original open.gov.uk service when I was in CCTA (now sadly no more). It was initially built on a Sun SPARC 5 (yes, a pizza box) running solaris 2.3 and CERN's original webserver. I later migrated to NCSA's webserver, then apache and eventually moved to linux on dell servers.
But in all that time, the back end was a pretty simple mix of CGI scripts. Of course we had no money, so that sort of limited what I could do. :-)
Mick
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