AWS

Introduction Harnessing the power of AWS Step Functions, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) embarks on a transformative journey to streamline its operations. With over 50 million registered drivers and 40 million vehicles, the DVLA navigates various applications, from driving licences to vehicle registrations. This blog unveils the approach adopted by DVLA to transform its application process, ensuring flexibility and customisation for each application type. Background As the custodian of millions of driver and vehicle records, DVLA grapples with the complexity of managing diverse applications....

As part of our proof of concepts in to the adoption of One Login we setup a Spring Security OAuth 2.0 demo that tested out the integration guide provided by Government Digital Service (GDS). Spring security has long had great OAuth2.0 support from both the server and client elements. Over the last year spring security added support for the private_key_jwt client authentication method as part of the authorization code grant flow....

When a drone build is configured to both deploy and then delete AWS services, it is vital the AWS clean up step runs to maintain the AWS stacks within their limit. To ensure these steps run before the build times out, you can wrap your cucumber command in the linux timeout command within the drone pipeline example: commands: - cd functional-tests || exit 1 - timeout -k 10 10m bundle exec rake test Linux Timeout The timeout command is a command-line utility that will run the specified command for a given period of time, once that period of time is reached if the given command is still running it will be terminated....

Introduction Dead letter queues (DLQ) are often used to catch items that have not been successfully processed or delivered when using queue 1 based integration patterns. Typically engineering teams will want to be alerted quickly to the presence of items on a dead letter queue so they can do something about it e.g. redrive messages back to a source queue, inspect the messages for further understanding of an issue etc....