Moving away from Symantec Certificate Authorities
An ever-growing number of security issues have been identified with certificates issued by Symantec Certificate Authorities (CAs) over recent years. Affected certificates include...
Cutting our AWS spend in half
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...
Security vulnerabilities: what you need to know
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...
Blockchain 101
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...
Vagrant and LXD
Managing Development Environments
We use a variety of technologies to help us manage development environments. One of these is Linux Containers, and more...
Under the hood of Moodle’s cron system
At Catalyst we work with a lot of clients who have pretty big Moodle instances.
One of the critical parts of Moodle is the Task API aka cron system which ticks along in the...
Follow The Sun Support – One Year In
Catalyst started up in 1997, and from humble beginnings as an outsourced services company we have grown to over 250 staff globally, with seven offices across Australia, New...
20 Years Ago
20 years ago Jim Bolger was still our Prime Minister, the All Blacks made a clean sweep of the Bledisloe Cup and Wellington became the first city in the world to lay a fibre loop...
What's an Inkscape?
Inkscape is free and open source drawing software. It’s available for Linux (of course), but also for Windows, and for MacOS too. It’s a tool for drawing 2D...
Koha adventures in India
A few times a year Chris Cormack gets on a plane to somewhere really interesting to talk about Koha.
Chris was the original developer of Koha and is in demand for speaking gigs...
JMeter as a Load Testing Tool
Catalyst manage a lot of Enterprise web applications, enough that we are always seem to be upgrading one instance or another. More and more in the world of cloud native...
DevOpsDays Sydney 2016
Late last year, I attended DevOpsDays Sydney 2016 Conference. This conference aims to have all participants, learning and sharing ideas of adopting DevOps...
