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| | ** Development following the [https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/modern-emerging-technologies/government-canada-standards-apis.html Government of Canada Standards on APIs] can allow rapid uptake into Open Data feeds. | | ** Development following the [https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/modern-emerging-technologies/government-canada-standards-apis.html Government of Canada Standards on APIs] can allow rapid uptake into Open Data feeds. |
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| − | ==Maximize Reuse== | + | ==Resources== |
| − | * '''Leverage and reuse existing solutions, components, and processes'''
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| − | ** The use of Open Source software can ensure that other Departments reuse components developed, and vice versa.
| + | ===== [https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/policies-standards/dm-cds-joint-directive.html DM/CDS joint directive - DND/CAF COVID-19 public health measures and personal protection] ===== |
| − | ** SaaS, PaaS and IaaS solutions can leverage sharing of configurations when no code is involved such as the GC Accelerators ([https://github.com/canada-ca/accelerators_accelerateurs-azure AWS], [https://github.com/canada-ca/accelerators_accelerateurs-aws Amazon])
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| − | ** Opening up Communication with other Departments to identify if they've already developed a solution can enable further reuse.
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| − | * '''Select enterprise and cluster solutions over department-specific solutions'''
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| − | ** Focus on solutions that enable sharing with other Departments, do not focus just on individual mandates.
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| − | ** Costs can be setup to be shared across multiple departments, agencies etc...
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| − | * '''Achieve simplification by minimizing duplication of components and adhering to relevant standards'''
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| − | ** Focus on Separation of Concern by the development of Microservices, and use and reuse of APIs.
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| − | ** Consume APIs from the [https://api.canada.ca/en/homepage Government of Canada API Store] if it exists, if it does not add it to the API store.
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| − | ** Follow the [https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/modern-emerging-technologies/government-canada-standards-apis.html Government of Canada Standards on APIs]
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| − | * '''Inform the GC EARB about departmental investments and innovations'''
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| − | ** Communicate with the GC-EARB Team early and frequently, sharing innovations and lessons learned so we can assistance in broadcasting them to others.
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| − | * '''Share code publicly when appropriate, and when not, share within the Government of Canada'''
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| − | ** Code should be shared in Public Repositories as described [https://github.com/canada-ca/open-source-logiciel-libre/blob/master/en/guides/publishing-open-source-code.md#select-source-code-repository here].
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| − | ** When not able to, instead Code should be shared on [https://gccode.ssc-spc.gc.ca/ GCCode].
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| | ==Enable Interoperability== | | ==Enable Interoperability== |