Takeways from Govtech developer conference

Posted by Yuanbo on October 3, 2018

  

PM. Lee Hsien Loong’s talk

Attending the 1st GovTech in SG. PM’s talk is very impressive. PM passed by my seat and we are just 50cm distance. 😀😀😀 hashtag#govtech hashtag#government hashtag#software

A very quick notes.

PM. Lee

  • SG did well as early adopter of technology.
  • Then legacy system problem - endless work on maintain and upgrade
  • Movement to Commercial cloud
  • Data security - SGHealth case
  • User experience.
  • Government software transform - leverage advance tools and build one common central system - SGTS
  • with Micro-service, open apis, plug and play
  • Talented IT professionals are needed
  • Drive SG a smart nation

data sharing

https://data.gov.sg/ gives data including

Economy
                                       
Education

Environment

Finance

Health

Infrastructure

Society

Technology

Transport

national digital identity

https://www.ndi-api.gov.sg/

microservice

https://speakerdeck.com/dburkes

From monoliths to microservices What, how, and why

Token based stateless authentication

  1. Stateful vs Stateless Sessions
  2. Intro to JSON Web tokens (JWT)
  3. JWT as Session Tokens
  4. Implementing your own stateless authentication using JWT
  5. Extending JWT Session Tokens with Refresh Tokens

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