I get the honour of the final blog post of 2015, and it’s a pleasing one to be able to write as we look back on what the team in TfL Online have achieved during this year.
We started off the year accomplishing one deployment of new code to the website every two weeks, and that’s increased to the point where we’ve now managed our 57th release to the site in 2015. There are a lot of variables and moving parts that we monitor and co-ordinate simultaneously to deliver a safe, quality assured, zero defect, zero outage deployment to the website every single week.
For more detail, see my posts on Blue/Green deployments and Agile continuous delivery in the cloud (in 3 parts).
While we’ve successfully made these 57 separate releases of code, optimisations, reference data refresh, bug fixes, enhancements and new features to tfl.gov.uk, we’ve managed to do all this seamlessly without a single planned maintenance window, so our customers haven’t experienced any down-time at all while we’ve been making these improvements.
So, here’s how we believe we’ve fed into the ‘Every Journey Matters’ ethos:
It matters that TfL Online digital services are continuously improving with greater customer enhancements, so we are investigating ways to increase our deployment frequency even further. Watch this space.
We’ll be back with more Digital Blog posts in the new year, so in the meantime have a great Christmas and a happy New Year to everyone!
A website is only as good as its last update, some good work going on here, I’ll let you know if I find any bugs, Merry Christmas
Thanks, is there anywhere developers (or users) can leave feedback, especially on a, how can I put this, serious defect in your data?
Hi Andrew, you can leave feedback here or on any of our other blog posts (e.g. on one of our API posts if that’s more relevant) and we’ll respond. We’d prefer this to be public in case it’s useful info for others, but if you’d prefer you can email us at [email protected].
Ok, you’ve lost a bus route. All of it. The good news is that the buses are still running, and the display boards at busstops are working, but https://api.tfl.gov.uk/Line/159 returns an error and anything that might return a 159 hasn’t since the change in ownership.
Thanks for pointing that out Andrew. The team here have double-checked and this will be fixed in the next data release
Hi Stephen,
Could you please tell me where is the option for full screen on the maps? At the moment the map only uses about 1/3 of the screen real estate and would be much more user friendly if there were an option to expand to fill the screen of the device accessing it.
Hi Robin, could you let me know which maps you are looking at please?