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Satisfaction Surveys – Payara’s Results Are In!
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Happy, motivated staff is the goal for every business – because who doesn’t want a high performing, engaged workforce?!
Working in a globally distributed, fully remote company means that, sometimes, you can’t always see what is working for your people in the moment. That’s why regular satisfaction surveys (eNPS) are so valuable. These surveys give everyone a chance to feedback what they think is going well and where changes need to be made.
But what about emotional wellbeing? This refers to the other aspects that tell you about someone’s experience in the company – their personal motivators, relationships with others and general happiness levels. These factors are just as important as overall job satisfaction, helping businesses shape the perfect culture for growth and productivity.
Last week, Payara got the results back from our first eNPS survey of 2023, along with the results of our very first wellbeing survey, and the results are eye-opening. See what some of our Payaran’s said below…
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Remote Working – For the Win?!
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3 years on from the pandemic, companies are now assessing the way they want their employees to work. Most companies that could go remote, went remote and are facing the decision to either ask staff to come back into the office full time, work hybrid or stay fully remote.
It’s safe to say that with the cost of living going up in the majority of countries across the globe, remote working is a better financial decision for companies as they don’t have the costs of an office building and the upkeep and maintenance. It’s also better financially for staff as they don’t have the expense of commuting, office wear and spontaneous purchases whilst at work, such as coffees and lunches.
Parents of Payara: Head of People Julia Millidge
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What’s life like as a parent at Payara?
Due to our flexible remote-working policy, there is a lot that is appealing about combining parenthood with Payara. When your commute is non-existent, it’s easier to be there for those precious moments. However, when your work and home life are blended, there are challenges!
We are talking to Payaran parents about the mix of family life and a career at a fast-paced scale-up business in our ‘Parents of Payara’ series. See interviews from other parents Dominika and Simon here! Hopefully you can find some inspiration, or even just a bit of recognition for experiences shared…
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Happy International Women’s Day!
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Happy International Women’s Day!
International Women’s Day, on March 8, is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.
At Payara, our female employees are part of a world where women are often underrepresented – software! We wanted to speak to a few of them to spotlight their perspective and inspire others. With our flexible working opportunities and progressive maternity leave policy, as well as regular diversity and inclusion training, we are taking steps to ensure our workplace is a great place for women – but there is always more to be done.
Parents of Payara: Senior Marketing Specialist Dominika Tasarz-Sochacka
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What’s life like as a parent at Payara?
Due to our flexible remote-working policy, there is a lot that is appealing about combining parenthood with Payara. When your commute is non-existent, it’s easier to be there for those precious moments. However, when your work and home life are blended, there are challenges!
We are talking to Payaran parents about the mix of family life and a career at a fast-paced scale-up business. Hopefully you can find some inspiration, or even just a bit of recognition for experiences shared…
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Parents of Payara: Senior Test Engineer Simon Laden
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What’s life like as a parent at Payara?
Due to our flexible remote-working policy, there is a lot that is appealing about combining parenthood with Payara. When your commute is non-existent, it’s easier to be there for those precious moments. However, when your work and home life are blended, there are challenges!
We are talking to Payaran parents about the mix of family life and a career at a fast-paced scale-up business. Hopefully you can find some inspiration, or even just a bit of recognition for experiences shared…
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January Webinar Series – What’s New in Jakarta EE 10
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What’s New In Jakarta EE 10 – Part 1 – Microservices
Friday, the 13th of January 2023, 3pm GMT – REGISTER HERE
Jakarta EE 10is the first feature release of the platform since its move to Eclipse Foundation. It comes with many new features and enhancements that will make you even more productive with the platform.
This first in a series of three Payara webinars takes a bird’s eye view of the notable changes in Jakarta EE 10 that enhance your use of the microservices architecture pattern. This installment of the series will take a look at:
– Java SE 17 support
– The lighter Core Profile
– Fatless CDI, aka CDI Lite
– OpenID Connect support in Security
– Jakarta REST bootstrap API
– Jakarta EE 10 support in Payara Platform
By the end of this fast paced, no slides webinar, you will have a grasp of what Jakarta EE 10 has to offer in using it to craft your microservices applications.
What’s New In Jakarta EE 10 – Part 2 – Traditional Enterprise Development
Thursday, the 19th of January 2023, 3pm GMT –REGISTER HERE
In this second installment of the Payara webinar series on Jakarta EE 10, we take a look at new features and enhancements for traditional enterprise applciations. Topics include:
– @ManagedExecutorDefinition
– Native support for UUID as entity keys in Jakarta Persistence
– Multipart/form-data support in Jakarta REST
– Enhanced scopes with @ClientWindowScoped in Faces
– Typesafe Java API for creating Faces views
This rapid fire, no slides webinar will bring you up to speed with Jakarta EE 10. By the end of this installment of the webinar series, you will be have a grasp of what Jakarta EE has to offer in its latest iteration for traditional application development.
What’s New In Jakarta EE 10 – Part 3 – What Got Removed or Deprecated?
Friday, the 27th of January 2023, 3pm GMT – REGISTER HERE
Jakarta EE 10 is the first feature release of the platform since its move to Eclipse Foundation. This release comes with a number of features and enhancements that make Enterprise Java development on the platform even more productive.
As part of removing “excess fat” and streamlining the various API, Jakarta EE 10 removed as well as deprecated a few things.
In this final installment of the Payara Jakarta EE 10 webinar series, we take a look at what got demoted through deprecation and what got kicked out through full removal. Among the topics for discussion are:
– @Context annotation in REST
– EJB Entity Beans
– Embeddable EJB container
– Servlet/Faces/CDI features
This fast paced, no slides webinar will help you navigate these changes so you can plan your own project accordingly.
We hope to see you there!
Payara at JakartaOne Livestream 2022!
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You will find Payara team members delivering talks at JakartaOne Livestream in December, an important event for the Jakarta EE community.
Meet Our New Technical Writer Luqman!
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We have a new Payaran, Technical Writer Luqman!
He is a Jakarta EE expert ready to bring his insight and skills to Payara.
We asked him a few questions to get to know him better!
Webinar: Payara Cloud – Realizing the Potential of Cloud Native Serverless Jakarta EE
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You may have heard about our brand-new Payara Cloud product.
Payara Cloud automates the infrastructural tasks required when moving a Jakarta EE application to a cloud deployment model, and is therefore a ‘serverless’ option.
Payara Launches Payara Cloud – Serverless Approach for Jakarta EE
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The cloud native application runtime automates tasks like Kubernetes deployment, ingress and YAML.
Today, Payara launches a new product Payara Cloud, designed to run Jakarta EE apps easily and quickly on the cloud. Developers simply upload any web application following the Jakarta Web Profile specification and run it in a containerized Payara Micro instance. Payara Cloud deals with infrastructure allowing them to build the code and concentrate on business logic.
“Developer experience is crucial to us, and with Payara Cloud we are responding to the growing popularity of platform engineering and its integrated products to deal with operational necessities. Payara Cloud caters to this growing demand for tools that automate infrastructural tasks; improving efficiency and shortening development cycles,” said Steve Millidge, Payara Founder and CEO.
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Webinar – Payara 6 Community is Here!
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It is the first stable release of the Payara 6 Community stream and will be the updated, current version of Payara Platform Community.
Meet Simon, new Senior Test Engineer (& Jessica & Casey The Cats!)
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Simon joins us as we grow our global, remote-first team! He is a Senior Test Engineer and is part of the team from his home in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Here, we get to know him bettter:
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Growing our Payara Service team – Meet Felix and Elif!
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Payara offers a choice of 24×7, 10×5, or Migration & Project Support provided by directly by our Jakarta EE / Java EE expert engineers. As we grow, that means our Service team grows too. We’ve recently welcomed Felix – from Romania but living in Wales, UK – and Elif – based in Ankara, Turkey – to our team.
It is a common misconception that service team members have no technical knowledge, they both explain!
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Leadership That Inspires People!
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Today is the birthday of Steve Millidge, Payara’s CEO and Founder, Eclipse Foundation key committer, and the brains behind providing a supported replacement for GlassFish in 2014: the birth of Payara Platform!
However, being a leader means a lot more than just bright ideas, and his leadership style also sets the tone for Payara’s culture and values.
To celebrate his big day, we quizzed some Payara team members on Steve as a boss. Here are some of the answers – take note aspiring tech leaders!
Meet Rebekah – Our new People Team Assistant
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At Payara, we pride ourselves on being a global employer of choice.
We have employees in 13 countries, speaking 14 languages and operating across multiple time zones. We work to ensure everyone feels part of a united team, living our values Community, Growth, Openness, Initiative, Trust, Excellence and Passion, across continents. Of course, this takes hard work and carefully planned initiatives. We’re expanding our People team to make sure we can keep up our high levels of employee satisfaction – and continue to make being a “Payaran” special.
So without further ado: meet Rebekah, or ‘Bekah’, our new People Team Assistant.
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Virtual Connection at Our Company Conference
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A few weeks ago, we held our first Virtual Payara Day of 2022. This is our quarterly online conference, and has evolved from business updates to a way of forging connections in a remote, global team.
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If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It Anyway: The Evolution of Virtual Payara Day
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This Friday is Virtual Payara Day – a quarterly event that looks quite different from our first-ever Virtual Payara Day (VPD) in 2018, despite the consistent success of VPD since then. Once we kick off a recurring event like this that receives glowing results, isn’t it easy to publish our template and rest on our laurels? However, because the needs and culture of a business are always developing, no template should be rid of that “edit” button. At Payara, the evolution of VPD is a useful example of how an already successful event can be improved by remaining alive and responsive.
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Meet Hadar: Our New Engineering Manager
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Meet Luis – New Payara Starter
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Welcome to another of our new starters: Luis, Java Software Engineer, based in Brazil!
We found out a bit more about Luis in this quick Q+A – from his favourite piece of music for productivity, to the fact he takes advantage of his location by watching the famous Brazilian football team in action. Just make sure you don’t assume he creates spreadsheets all day…