Late last year, Brimbank Libraries undertook a major upgrade to their library software system. With the support of Catalyst IT, Brimbank replaced their 20 year old library management […]

Qinling delivers Function as a Service (Serverless Computing) in OpenStack clouds. Lingxian Kong and Feilong Wang are senior cloud engineers from the Catalyst Cloud and long-term contributors of […]

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’d like […]

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 […]

An ever-growing number of security issues have been identified with certificates issued by Symantec Certificate Authorities (CAs) over recent years. Affected certificates include the brands Thawte, VeriSign, Equifax, […]

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 […]

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 exploits this […]

Introduction Catalyst and Bywater Solutions are both vendors for Koha library management system. We have worked together in the Koha community for 8 years. Both companies support a […]

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? […]

Managing Development Environments We use a variety of technologies to help us manage development environments. One of these is Linux Containers, and more specifically LXC. LXC offers a way to […]

Catalyst was formed in Wellington in 1997. Over the last twenty years, we have developed longstanding successful relationships with a wide range of public sector agencies, partnering with […]

Our team Catalyst’s Agile SilverStripe Team is a group of six dedicated IT professionals with a combined professional experience in website and web-application development and management that exceeds […]