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Koha is a Library Management System used worldwide by approximately 15,000 libraries. The Koha team at Catalyst are passionate about using Koha and helping libraries (big and...

The NZ SKA forum took place recently at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). This four-day event brought together a wide variety of national and international visitors who...

Around about now I should start emailing you to say, “come and talk to Catalyst about your library technology plans! Visit me at Stand 44 at #Vala2018!” right? Well, yes, but...

Image credits : John Morgan on Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Inkscape is a powerful, open source desktop application for creating two-dimensional scalable vector graphics....

Qinling delivers Function as a Service (Serverless Computing) in OpenStack clouds. Lingxian Kong and Feilong Wang are senior cloud engineers from the Catalyst Cloud...

Introduction In my previous post I covered key concepts fundamental to understanding blockchain technology, and detailed a small handful of real world use-cases. In this post I...

On November 8, some Catalystas attended the Work in Progress Conference in Wellington.  We had the privilege of listening to a whole day of incredible speakers who opened our...

An ever-growing number of security issues have been identified with certificates issued by Symantec Certificate Authorities (CAs) over recent years. Affected certificates include...

It often seems that, by default, our AWS monthly spends go in only one direction - up. Our AWS cost reduction strategy has evolved over time, through the work we’ve done for...

Wi-Fi KRACK Overnight, security weaknesses have been published in the WPA2 protocol used by most home and commercial Wi-Fi systems, including public Wi-Fi. The attack that...

You’ve heard of bitcoin, and you read about Silk Road a while back. Bitcoin is just ‘geek money’ and you can’t possibly do anything useful with it... right? Wrong. The bar...

Managing Development Environments We use a variety of technologies to help us manage development environments. One of these is Linux Containers, and more...