When over 53,000 students at three of Alberta’s post-secondary institutions went online this month to register for courses and communicate with their teachers, [...]
A group of us at Cybera have been using the ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) for about a year and a half, and for the most part its been great. [...]
The prairies chapter of the Municipal Information Systems Association of Canada (MISA) hosted its fall workshop on ‘Shortening the distance to the cloud’ [...]
In today’s blog let’s take a closer look at what Logstash is. We’ll also get our hands dirty and set up a very simple Logstash instance (on a single machine) and start pulling in some logs. [...]
There is a vast treasure trove of information hiding inside the log files on your servers, but visualizing and exploring such a large amount of textual data can be difficult. [...]
In the biggest test of the Learning Management Cloud since its development in 2012, over 70,000 students went on to the system at the same time in September, without any lags in performance. [...]
NorQuest College has joined the University of Alberta, NAIT and Athabasca University in a pilot project to share their learning management systems, Moodle, as a cloud-based system. [...]
The University of Alberta and NAIT have teamed up to develop a shared pool of computing resources, called a cloud, for hosting their learning management systems, in this case Moodle. [...]
It’s only been a year since I graduated, but in that time, three major institutions have done a major overhaul of their learning management systems (LMS). [...]