CourtsDesk

Company Background

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

The challenge

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

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Why FIRSTBLOX?

  • 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.

Technical Results

  • 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

The Outcome

  • 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.

Alan Larkin

CTO

Work commenced promptly and was carried out in the most professional manner, being fully transparent with regular updates and detailed documentation of all decisions and deliverables maintained. The team really went above and beyond, meeting every one of our requirements and more. The infrastructure-as-code is clean and carefully crafted and since the handover, which itself was meticulously planned and documented, we have found it remarkably easy to take ownership of what is quite a large and sophisticated platform. As a small start-up with a limited budget, huge demands on our human resources, and no dedicated in-house cloud specialist, taking on any significant infrastructure project is daunting. FIRSTBLOX made it easy. We will have no hesitation about calling on them again in the future.