Parents of Payara: Head of People Julia Millidge Published on 13 Mar 2023 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Giving Back, Payara Life 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 Continue Reading
Happy International Women’s Day! Published on 08 Mar 2023 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Giving Back 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 Continue Reading
Parents of Payara: Senior Marketing Specialist Dominika Tasarz-Sochacka Published on 03 Mar 2023 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara Life 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 Continue Reading
Parents of Payara: Senior Test Engineer Simon Laden Published on 23 Feb 2023 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara Life 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 Continue Reading
Meet Our New Technical Writer Luqman! Published on 18 Nov 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara LifeTagged Community, Fish Food 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!
Meet Simon, new Senior Test Engineer (& Jessica & Casey The Cats!) Published on 06 Oct 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish FoodTagged Fish Food, HR, People Team 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:
Growing our Payara Service team – Meet Felix and Elif! Published on 15 Sep 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara Life 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 Continue Reading
Leadership That Inspires People! Published on 29 Apr 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish FoodTagged Community, Developer, Success Stories, Virtual Payara Day 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. Continue Reading
Meet Rebekah – Our new People Team Assistant Published on 01 Apr 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara LifeTagged Community, Fish Food, Payara Community, People Team 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 Continue Reading
Virtual Connection at Our Company Conference Published on 23 Mar 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Giving BackTagged Community, culture, event, events, Payara Community, People Team, Virtual Payara Day 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.
If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It Anyway: The Evolution of Virtual Payara Day Published on 02 Mar 2022 by Mycah BanksTopics: Fish FoodTagged event, events, HR, news and events, People Team, Virtual Payara Day 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 Continue Reading
Meet Hadar: Our New Engineering Manager Published on 09 Feb 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish FoodTagged Community, Developer, Giving back, HR, marketing, news & events, Payara Community Hadar, our new Payara Engineering Manager, joined the team at the same time as Arie, Cheryl and Luis (read their previous Q+As). We onboarded 4 team members across 3 different countries/time zones in the space of one week.
Meet Luis – New Payara Starter Published on 03 Feb 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Giving BackTagged Community, Fish Food, news & events 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 Continue Reading
Leaving Jakarta, Place for Jakarta EE, Programming – a Remote-First Success Story Published on 28 Jan 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Payara LifeTagged Community, Jakarta EE, Payara Community 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 Continue Reading
Permissionless Co-Marketing: When One of Us Shines, We All Shine! Published on 21 Jan 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish FoodTagged Community, marketing 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.”
5 Benefits of Remote-First Companies Published on 22 Dec 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, Giving Back, Payara LifeTagged Community, culture 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 Continue Reading
How To Reinvent Your Office Party For Remote Working Published on 17 Dec 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food 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 Continue Reading
Marketing and PR: Making Sense of Complexity! Published on 17 Nov 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish FoodTagged Community, Fish Food, marketing In this blog, Marketing Assistant Priya Khaira-Hanks looks at two separate aspects of how a tech company is likely to promote itself: PR & Marketing. What do they mean? What’s the difference? And how do they differ in the specific context of the Payara Platform?
Payara Cloud: Logo Creation and Brand Continuity Published on 29 Jul 2021 by Denisa ZettlovaTopics: Fish FoodTagged Fish Food, Payara Cloud Payara Services provides stable, supported open source software. Bringing our solutions to a global audience entails a wider skillset in the team than can be confined to Java developers and engineers, however. Our Marketing, Sales and HR departments have vital roles to play, with our Fish Food blogs providing a peek behind the curtain (or Continue Reading
Payara Week 2021: Of-FISH-ally Just as Good Online! Published on 06 Jul 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, NewsroomTagged events, HR, newsroom, Payara Week Long-time followers of Team Payara will know that Payara Week is our annual company-wide event. It’s our opportunity for team bonding, to discuss and develop ideas for Payara’s future success, and, most importantly, have lots of fun. Last year, our fourth Payara Week took place at our Portugal office, located in Funchal on the island Continue Reading
