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Hosting Advice Interview with Our CEO and Founder Steve Millidge

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.

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Payara CEO Steve Millidge Interviewed in Technology Reseller

Payara was the subject of a business profile in Technology Reseller:

Tell us about Payara Services in just a few sentences.

Payara is a born-global, micro multinational software company headquartered in the UK, with offices in Portugal. We are an organisation with a ‘remote first’ hiring approach, meaning we have customers and team members across the world. Our open source software tools are used to build transactional cloud-native web applications, making us a recognised leader in the creation of innovative infrastructure software for today and tomorrow and allowing us to gain a community of users and contributors that span the globe.

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Business Matters Interviews Steve Millidge, Founder, CEO and CTO of Payara Services

An interview with the founder, CEO and CTO of Payara Services, Steve Millidge, in Business Matters, the UK’s Leading Business Magazine.

1. For those unfamiliar with Payara, tell us about your clients and the problems you’re trying to solve for them? Also why did you name your company after a large carnivorous fish with big teeth?

Payara Server was created when commercial support ended for a popular application server, Oracle GlassFish, in 2014. This application server supported projects built in the programming language Java, and specifically, using standardised Java APIs for enterprise, Java EE (now Jakarta EE).

When GlassFish was dropped by Oracle, many large enterprises using it – including our first client, BMW – were at a loss for a reliable, supported replacement. This was an opportunity for us to innovate and to provide open software solutions that are currently widely used by community and enterprise users globally.

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Steve Millidge discusses Jakarta EE, the Eclipse Foundation & GlassFish’s future on the WaterWorks Podcast

Our CEO and Founder Steve Millidge is a guest on the WaterWorks podcast, the technology discussion podcast run by journalist and author John K. Waters.

Waters is the editor in chief of the Converge360 news and information sites Application Development Trends (ADT Mag), Pure AI, and Futuretech360 – with his career also including writing books, including “The Everything Guide to Social Media,” one of the first deep dives into this world-changing phenomenon, and “Blobitecture,” an exploration of an architectural and industrial design trend enabled by computer software. He also co-scripted the documentary film “Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance,” which aired on PBS.

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