Eh, it's the UK government. Any lack of fuckup is a surprise.

On the whole, the UK Gov is actually quite good at digital services. Much better than any of my experiences with services offered by the US, Canada or France.

> Much better than any of my experiences with services offered by the US, Canada or France.

That's not hard to be better in the case of France, half of the procedures require to send some physical letter and the rest are accessible on some atrocious websites.

You're absolutely right, there's still a very old-school mentality when it comes to French bureaucracy.

The UK government is often quoted as a leading example on how to run digital services well. A fuckup would be a surprise.

The UK civil service is great - although it strikes me as someone really good was given the power and budget to make it happen.

The UK government however...

You are spot on there. Here is Tom Loosemore (one of the originators of the Government Digital Service) explaining how it came to be:

https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/abfe49d3-f24c-4b93-b8e...

Unfortunately the spend control that GDS had, has been removed.

I really like this video for explaining the DAG - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTOP_shhVBQ

He's definitely talking about JPM. Since he's drawing parallels to AWS Lambda, I reckon he'll be talking about their grid compute.

Not sure when the bank deprecated IE though - it was certainly in use for most internal sites when I left in 2018.

By that they mean chrome is the “strategic” solution and all new things should target chrome. IE is still required for many internal sites. They are setting up to move to Edge so both the old and the new can be accessed in one browser

So that's why Edge exists.

Nah it exists because an endless stream of security bugs is a headache.