Remote-first business Payara highly commended in Remote Excellence Awards Published on 20 Mar 2024 by Chiara CivardiTopics: Fish Food, NewsroomTagged newsroom, People Team Read the Press Release Payara Services Ltd. was highly commended at the 2024 Remote Excellence Award, organized by the leader in building, managing, and supporting globally distributed workforces, Remote. Praised within the Excellence in DE&I (diversity, equity and inclusion) category, the company was acknowledged for its proven record in welcoming and valuing team members with different nationalities, genders, races, ages, religions, sexual orientations and abilities. Continue reading “Remote-first business Payara highly commended in Remote Excellence Awards”
Payara Platform Surpasses 150,000 Monthly Users, Achieving Global Adoption Milestone Published on 10 Oct 2023 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: NewsroomTagged newsroom Payara is pleased to announce that it has reached 150,000 monthly users! Continue reading “Payara Platform Surpasses 150,000 Monthly Users, Achieving Global Adoption Milestone”
Payara Boosts Cybersecurity Credentials as CVE Numbering Authority Published on 02 Jun 2023 by Fabio TurizoTopics: NewsroomTagged newsroom Payara is proud to announe that it has become a CVE Numbering Authority. Read the full press release: Payara, a leading provider of Jakarta EE and MicroProfile runtimes, has been authorized by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). Payara can now publish authoritative cybersecurity vulnerability information about its products via the CVE Program. Vulnerabilities will be given a unique, alphanumeric identifier, building the CVE List that feeds into the U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD), and playing a role in the CVE Program’s mission to identify, define and catalogue cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Continue reading “Payara Boosts Cybersecurity Credentials as CVE Numbering Authority”
Payara Retreat 2023: Payara in Prague! Published on 28 May 2023 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, NewsroomTagged Fish Food, newsroom, Payara Cloud, payara retreat Payara Retreat (formerly “Payara Week”) is our annual, on-location event to become closer to one another, to put our ideas for Payara’s future success on the table, and to have some fun across all teams. Last year, then-Payara Week was online, and we proved that we could connect well virtually. However, it meant a lot to meet again face-to-face, for the first time since Payara Week in 2020, the week before the world closed down! A lot has changed since then – including the growth of Payara. Almost double the amount of team members, or“Payarans”, met for the renamed Payara Retreat in the beautiful city of Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. Continue reading “Payara Retreat 2023: Payara in Prague!”
Payara Launches Production Ready Platform for Jakarta EE 10 and MicroProfile 6 Published on 03 Apr 2023 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: NewsroomTagged newsroom We launched our production-ready product for use with the most recent Jakarta EE and MicroProfile versions. Read the full press release: Jakarta EE developers can now use the latest releases of Jakarta EE and MicroProfile with a fully supported, production-ready version of the Payara Platform Enterprise. With this release, Payara continues to stay at the forefront of the Jakarta EE ecosystem and ensures an enhanced user experience with new features and benefits. Payara Platform Enterprise Edition 6.0 is the first release of Payara’s Enterprise product for use with Jakarta EE 10. It follows last year’s November release of the Jakarta EE 10 compatible Payara Platform Community Edition 6.2022.1, created for use in development and testing environments. Continue reading “Payara Launches Production Ready Platform for Jakarta EE 10 and MicroProfile 6”
Payara Announces Winners of First Ever Hackathon! Published on 27 Mar 2023 by Dominika Tasarz-SochackaTopics: NewsroomTagged newsroom We are proud to announce the winners of our first ever Payara Hackathon! We asked entrants to build an app with Jakarta EE 10 and Payara Platform for a chance to win £3,000 in prize money for the winner, with £2,000 and £1,000 prizes for runners up – and the chance to get key recognition in the Jakata EE Community. Continue reading “Payara Announces Winners of First Ever Hackathon!”
Virtual Payara Day Q2/Q3: Finding Our Voices and Our Mascots Published on 24 Mar 2023 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: Fish Food, NewsroomTagged newsroom, VPD Virtual Payara Day is our quarterly virtual conference! Virtual Payara Day (VPD) is an opportunity for team members to get to know each other in a way that they can’t day-to-day, as well as getting business updates from the CEO and from other functional teams. This quarterly event is a consistent opportunity for updates on Payara’s performance in the previous quarter and on its initiatives in the next, ensuring that we have an updated, shared understanding of Payara’s current position and that we are all working towards the same goals. Continue reading “Virtual Payara Day Q2/Q3: Finding Our Voices and Our Mascots”
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!”
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”
Video: Payara Services Wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise Published on 28 Oct 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: NewsroomTagged Community, event, events, HR, Jakarta EE, news & events, news and events, newsroom Earlier this year, Payara Services was honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise – International Trade. This is the UK’s most prestigious business award, often called the “Knighthood for Businesses”. Continue reading “Video: Payara Services Wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise”
Payara CEO Steve Millidge Interviewed in Technology Reseller Published on 13 Sep 2021 by Dominika Tasarz-SochackaTopics: NewsroomTagged interviews, newsroom 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. Continue reading “Payara CEO Steve Millidge Interviewed in Technology Reseller”
Business Matters Interviews Steve Millidge, Founder, CEO and CTO of Payara Services Published on 13 Sep 2021 by Dominika Tasarz-SochackaTopics: NewsroomTagged interviews, newsroom 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. Continue reading “Business Matters Interviews Steve Millidge, Founder, CEO and CTO of Payara Services”
Payara Wins Small Business of the Year Award – Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber Business Awards Published on 09 Sep 2021 by Jadon OrtleppTopics: NewsroomTagged newsroom We are very proud to announce that Payara was nominated and finalists for 4 separate Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber Business Awards: Exporter of the Year Employer of the Year Small Business of the Year Health and Wellbeing Employer of the Year Continue reading “Payara Wins Small Business of the Year Award – Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber Business Awards”
Steve Millidge discusses Jakarta EE, the Eclipse Foundation & GlassFish’s future on the WaterWorks Podcast Published on 10 Aug 2021 by Dominika Tasarz-SochackaTopics: NewsroomTagged interviews, newsroom 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. Continue reading “Steve Millidge discusses Jakarta EE, the Eclipse Foundation & GlassFish’s future on the WaterWorks Podcast”
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 of Madeira. The fantastic event energised the team, and as the time for the fifth of these exciting company summits rolled round, we were faced with the question – what would Payara Week look like when pandemic-related restrictions meant it had to be virtual? The answer? Thanks to the invention, imagination and innovation of our HR and Engagement team – and the fantastic attitude of “Payarans” all over the globe – Payara Week was just as creative, inspiring and relationship-building than in previous years! Payara Cloud lead developer Patrik Duditš invites you to find out more… Continue reading “Payara Week 2021: Of-FISH-ally Just as Good Online!”
Payara Services Wins Queen’s Award! Published on 29 Apr 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: NewsroomTagged Community, Developer, Eclipse Foundation, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Microprofile, news & events, news and events, newsroom, Payara Community, Success Stories We are overjoyed to announce that Payara has been honoured with the most prestigious UK business award: the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Often called the “Knighthood for Businesses”, the Queen’s Award is also renowned worldwide, with Payara’s award particularly recognising our international success. Continue reading “Payara Services Wins Queen’s Award!”
