Open Tech Calendar

About this Event

The development community from HMPPS Digital are opening their community of practice to the public. They will be giving a series of lightning talks from developers and technical architects from our community.

Agenda

Ryan Brooks - Engineering the review process
Mike Willis - Delivering a single sign-on solution across a legacy suite
Tom Myers - How we’re using contract testing using PACT
Host: Nevelina Aleksandrova

Our Community

We currently have over 40 experienced developers who make up the broader engineering community. Take a look at our developer blog and read about one of our developers talking about her experiences joining during the lockdown.

Our Tech Stack

We rely heavily on:

Java or Kotlin to write our backend services
Node/Express to write our frontend services
Circle CI for continuous delivery
Sentry/Prometheus for application monitoring
Application Insights for full observability into applications, infrastructure, and network
Elastic/Kibana for Data visualization
Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services (read about our Cloud Platform)
AWS & Azure for most of our infrastructure
GOV.UK Design System for our web interfaces
Macs to do all of the above
About HMPPS Digital
HMPPS Digital is a part of MOJ Digital and Technology.

Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) is rapidly transforming. HMPPS Digital’s mission is to help rehabilitate and reduce reoffending by building world-class services that put the user first, overhauling the legacy technology that underpins our systems, and making better use of data to improve our services.

HMPPS Digital has a diverse portfolio of products and services to suit a wide range of developer skills. We have an experienced, in-house software development team, building services with both public and professional user interfaces, built on top of our APIs and Cloud Platform.