‍Courtsdesk is the leading provider of integrated Court and Company data to the media, legal, and financial sectors. Over 70% of court cases in the UK and Ireland generate no publicly accessible record. Courtsdesk is building this record, making it accessible for public interest/news outlets, legal services, and financial risk managers

To develop a secure, scalable, compliant, and best-practice Cloud platform to support expansion into the UK market.

From the very outset the team at FIRSTBLOX impressed. As a small team with an ambitious expansion plan, we neededsome external help designing and provisioning a sizable piece of new cloud infrastructure. FIRSTBLOX came recommended through a local network and so we shot them an outline of the project and requested a quotation. Theresponse that we received stood out from all the others. It was a detailed list of thoughtful questions, clearly showing that our brief had been carefully considered. A follow-up conversation left us in no doubt that this was a highly capableteam holding itself to the highest standards. Detailed quotations followed and by the time that we contacted FIRSTBLOX for the project, we had not one doubt that it was the best possible decision for us.
‍Alan Larkin – CTO

• A secure and cost optimised Architecture was designed in line with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• A new Cloud Foundation was provisioned with best practice Security and Compliance as key requirements.
• Automated 99% of Cloud Infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code.
• Automated CI capabilities for deployment of all new applications.
• Instilled Serverless and Docker development practices and techniques within the team.
• Developed best practice Serverless infrastructure patterns for mission-critical services.
• Provisioned Monitoring, Logging, and Notification infrastructure to assist with Operations.

• 99% Infrastructure as Code coverage.
• 100% Continuous Integration.
• Zero manual application deployments.
• Zero configuration drift.
• 100% of changes are audit-able and traceable.
• Automated and on-demand scaling capabilities.

• Stable and repeatable deployment of new code changes.
• Deployments are automated, reducing the need for manual handling.
• The team can now rapidly deploy and track progress.
• New test environments are created with ease.
• Data and Applications are protected using security best practices.
• Modernisation took place across the board. Recommended best practice deployment and infrastructure provisioning now in place as standard.
• Documentation provided.