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.
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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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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....
Things you MUST know before you deploy OpenStack
Recently, our Catalyst Cloud GM Bruno Lago was in Barcelona at the OpenStack Summit. He talked to attendees about what he's learned getting the Catalyst Cloud up and running....
New Catalyst Moodle Plugin - Outage Manager
Planned outages are a necessary evil.
As a Moodle Partner, we manage hosting and support for our enterprise Moodle clients.
Some of these clients receive...
Upcoming changes to cloud object storage
The Catalyst Cloud object storage service is about to get even better. It will replicate your objects across regions and introduce features that are very useful for web...
