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...
Catalyst Open Source Academy 2017
I want to talk (or is that blog?) about something that makes Catalyst a fantastic place to work.
Something that challenges the minds of the next generation.
Something that...
Something that...
A better onboarding tool for Koha
In November 2016 Mika Smith and I started as Koha interns at Catalyst. We were given an exciting opportunity to help library administrators all around the world by redesigning the...
Catalyst loves to innovate
One of the things that surprises people most when they start working at Catalyst is the strong DIY culture that exists here.
As a Kiwi company, DIY is in our blood. Our...
Try out docker swarm mode on the Catalyst Cloud
If you have a Catalyst Cloud account and you want to play with the latest features of docker, read on!
Docker 1.12 released last year added a native orchestration feature known...
Why Catalyst eLearning?
When someone asks me this sort of question, it's tempting to try and produce some sort of pithy soundbite, preferably one that incorporates some en-vogue buzzwords and would look...
Our year in review
2016 has been another very busy year for Catalyst.
From our offices in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom we've helped all sorts of clients to achieve the best in...
The journey of learning Terraform
As part of Catalyst’s operational activity we recently decided to try out Terraform in our orchestration toolset for a large piece of client infrastructure build. I was given the...
The Outer Beauty of Open Source - Catalyst Design Team
Open Source software is beautiful. It's beautiful because you can see the code, share the code and change the code. Our talented developers make sure that when you look under the...
Ko tōku reo taku ohooho, ko tōku reo taku māpihi maurea
You might have met Douglas Bagnall, perhaps at NDF in 2014 or 2015. You might have stopped him in the halls because he is passionate about some of the same things as you....
