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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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Jakarta EE 10: What Decision Makers Need to Know
Jakarta EE CDI Fact Sheet
Dismiss The Myths: Open Source
Key Considerations When Scaling Your Jakarta EE Application
Payara Micro Revealed: Developing Microservices Using Payara Micro
What Payara 6 Means For You
Leadership That Inspires People!
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Topics: Fish Food
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!
No Nonsense Guide to JVM Implementations: OpenJDK, OpenJ9, GraalVM
How to Identify Issues and Improve Application Performance
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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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…
Leaving Jakarta, Place for Jakarta EE, Programming – a Remote-First Success Story
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Being a remote-first company means our employees can make living decisions based on their needs, rather than their commute. Our brand-new Software Engineer Arie is feeling this benefit.
He lived for the last four years in Jakarta, the largest city of Indonesia, and namesake of the programming specifications for Java, used with our product, Payara Platform: Jakarta EE. He was able to move back to his hometown Banjarmasin, South Borneo, because of Payara’s remote-first policy, hiring all employees as purely remote workers.
Permissionless Co-Marketing: When One of Us Shines, We All Shine!
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It’s likely you haven’t heard of Permissionless Co-Marketing. It’s Marketing’s kindest secret weapon – and it’s everywhere!
Amanda Natividad, VP of Marketing for SparkToro, sums it up in her excellent Twitter thread:
“Permissionless Co-Marketing is aligning yourself with other brands by promoting them in your work.
The payoff? Earning goodwill and setting the foundation for potential collaboration.”
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Getting Started Guide with Payara Server
5 Benefits of Remote-First Companies
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses around the world to reconsider their working models. Companies that had never offered employees to work from home were suddenly moving to remote-friendly working arrangements just to stay afloat. The continuing concerns over the pandemic have accelerated the growth of remote work, and it’s predicted that 32% of all employees worldwide will be remote by the end of the year (up from 17% of remote employees in 2019). The pandemic has reshaped the work world, potentially for good.
How To Reinvent Your Office Party For Remote Working
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For the past two years, Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, Thanksgiving and more have all looked different. In-person celebrations are often not possible, due to lockdown restrictions coming into place in many different countries.
Company parties, often held before businesses close for a winter break, are likely to take place online rather than in a shared physical space.
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Payara Unaffected by Log4j Vulnerability
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To determine Log4j vulnerability, Payara has investigated its products:
Payara Server Community
Payara Micro Community
Payara Server Enterprise
Payara Micro Enterprise
Payara Cloud
and concluded that all remained unaffected.
