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The Find Your MP service has been revised. The service uses the new site design and a simplified interface: you can now search for your MP’s details using a postcode, constituency name or Member name from a single search box.
The aim during the development of the service was to remain transparent, publicly visible and accountable. Wherever possible, the choice was made to use open source technologies – and to make code and data available, unless legally constrained. The project was delivered using a set of tools and services that have supported our preferred lightweight working practices:
- Distributed version control: git, publicly available and hosted on github
- Issue tracking: Google Code project hosting
- Communication: team members on Twitter, project updates having their own account at @fymp
- Web framework: Apache and Phusion Passenger, Ruby on Rails (using ZenTest and Cucumber for testing and spec assurance), MySQL Community Server
- Hosting and storage: Amazon S3, EC2
- Virtual machine construction: Elastic Server
- Load testing: siege
