January Webinar Series – What’s New in Jakarta EE 10 Published on 06 Jan 2023 by Dominika Tasarz-SochackaTopics: Uncategorized 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!
Hosting Advice Interview with Our CEO and Founder Steve Millidge Published on 13 Dec 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: NewsroomTagged interviews, newsroom Our CEO and Founder Steve Millidge featured in this profile on Hosting Advice, originally published here and now reproduced for our website. Written by: Lynn Cadet Edited by: Lillian Castro Reviewed by: Christina Lewis TL; DR: Payara offers a serverless solution that simplifies Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE) deployments on the cloud, allowing developers to operate with speed and agility. Its Payara Cloud platform automates infrastructure tasks and makes cloud deployment more efficient by saving developers time and money. Payara users can focus on writing code while also having the ability to run their applications from anywhere. Continue reading “Hosting Advice Interview with Our CEO and Founder Steve Millidge”
TL; DR: Payara offers a serverless solution that simplifies Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE) deployments on the cloud, allowing developers to operate with speed and agility. Its Payara Cloud platform automates infrastructure tasks and makes cloud deployment more efficient by saving developers time and money. Payara users can focus on writing code while also having the ability to run their applications from anywhere. Continue reading “Hosting Advice Interview with Our CEO and Founder Steve Millidge”
Payara at JakartaOne Livestream 2022! Published on 24 Nov 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: NewsroomTagged Conferences, event, events, newsroom You will find Payara team members delivering talks at JakartaOne Livestream in December, an important event for the Jakarta EE community. Continue reading “Payara at JakartaOne Livestream 2022!”
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! Continue reading “Meet Our New Technical Writer Luqman!”
Webinar: Payara Cloud – Realizing the Potential of Cloud Native Serverless Jakarta EE Published on 14 Nov 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: News & EventsTagged cloud computing, CloudNative, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Microprofile, Payara Cloud 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. Continue reading “Webinar: Payara Cloud – Realizing the Potential of Cloud Native Serverless Jakarta EE”
Payara Launches Payara Cloud – Serverless Approach for Jakarta EE Published on 07 Nov 2022 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: NewsroomTagged newsroom, Payara Cloud 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. Continue reading “Payara Launches Payara Cloud – Serverless Approach for Jakarta EE”
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: Continue reading “Meet Simon, new Senior Test Engineer (& Jessica & Casey The Cats!)”
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 team. It is a common misconception that service team members have no technical knowledge, they both explain! Continue reading “Growing our Payara Service team – Meet Felix and Elif!”
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. 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! Continue reading “Leadership That Inspires People!”
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 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. Continue reading “Meet Rebekah – Our new People Team Assistant”
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. Continue reading “Virtual Connection at Our Company Conference”
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 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. Continue reading “If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It Anyway: The Evolution of Virtual Payara Day”
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. Continue reading “Meet Hadar: Our New Engineering Manager”
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 sure you don’t assume he creates spreadsheets all day… Continue reading “Meet Luis – New Payara Starter”
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 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. Continue reading “Leaving Jakarta, Place for Jakarta EE, Programming – a Remote-First Success Story “
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.” Continue reading “Permissionless Co-Marketing: When One of Us Shines, We All Shine!”
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 by the end of the year (up from 17% of remote employees in 2019). The pandemic has reshaped the work world, potentially for good. Continue reading “5 Benefits of Remote-First Companies”
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 space. Continue reading “How To Reinvent Your Office Party For Remote Working”
Payara Unaffected by Log4j Vulnerability Published on 14 Dec 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: News & EventsTagged Community, Payara Community 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. Continue reading “Payara Unaffected by Log4j Vulnerability”
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? Continue reading “Marketing and PR: Making Sense of Complexity!”
