Case Study: Firefly Digital achieves scalable, secure AWS container infrastructure and rapid deployments with Rackspace Technology

Firefly Digital Tackles Ed Tech with Containers

Firefly Digital is a full-service digital agency and the developer of Smart Choice, a school-application platform used by millions of students worldwide. As Smart Choice grew from a handful of schools to thousands, its dedicated servers couldn’t handle seasonal spikes, led to wasted capacity, slowed release cycles, and created security and compliance challenges—while the agency lacked the internal bandwidth to re-architect the platform.

Firefly partnered with Rackspace Professional Services to implement an AWS-based container architecture using Rackspace Service Blocks and a DevOps container enablement approach. The result is a scalable, secure, managed platform with automated deployment pipelines (reducing fixes and upgrades to minutes), fewer manual hours maintaining aging hardware, better peak-performance handling, and more time for the team to focus on product innovation.

Firefly Digital

August Montalbano

Senior Software Developer