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”
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”
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 “
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”
Payara Services Wins Queen’s Award! Published on 29 Apr 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: News & EventsTagged Community, Developer, Eclipse Foundation, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Microprofile, news & events, news and events, 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!”
Digitisation Expert OBJECT is Payara Platform Partner Published on 11 Mar 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: News & EventsTagged Payara Community, Success Stories OBJECT, an IT services business leading in digitisation for German speaking markets, is at the highest level in our Partner Program. This program offers global organisations an opportunity to generate recurring revenue streams by introducing their customers to the stability, support, and security of Payara Platform Enterprise. Our current list of Payara Partners consists of some of the world’s most esteemed companies offering high-performance bespoke IT solutions, and OBJECT is no exception! Continue reading “Digitisation Expert OBJECT is Payara Platform Partner”
Deploy Friday: Move Your Java Microservices to the Cloud with Payara Services Published on 11 Feb 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: News & EventsTagged Community, Conferences, Microprofile, Payara Community, Rudy De Busscher Platform.SH is an end-to-end web platform for agile teams: a PaaS that aims to manage the application and the services that the application needs, such as a database. Developing close to MicroProfile and Jakarta EE, like Payara Platform, it supports both specifications. We’re honoured to be guests for the company’s weekly live discussion, hosted on YouTube with live chat. Our engineers Rudy De Busscher and Fabio Turizo will discuss moving your microservices to the cloud with Chad Carlson and Otávio Santana from Platform.SH. Continue reading “Deploy Friday: Move Your Java Microservices to the Cloud with Payara Services”
February Release Overview & MicroProfile 4.0 Published on 11 Feb 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: News & EventsTagged Community, Microprofile, microservices, Payara Community, Rudy De Busscher Join Payara engineers for an informative and practical webinar on the recent updates and enhancements to the Payara Platform in the latest release (Payara Platform February Release). Every month, we answer questions on the most recent release and also discuss a key theme – this month, it’s MicroProfile 4.0, now fully supported in the Payara Platform Community Edition. We have covered what you can expect from the latest specifications in a blog, but please use this opportunity to ask any questions you might have about MicroProfile and its new iteration. Full support for MicroProfile 4.0 follows us announcing we are part of the MicroProfile Working Group. The MicroProfile project was born as a community initiative to optimise Enterprise Java with a microservices standard platform, and the Eclipse Foundation‘s MicroProfile Working Group proposes and gain approval for new common APIs and functionality – in turn drawing on the knowledge of a wide variety of different vendors. As one of the contributors, Payara engineers will shape and drive the future of the MicroProfile specifications. Continue reading “February Release Overview & MicroProfile 4.0”
Payara Services at DevNexus Published on 27 Jan 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: News & EventsTagged Community, Conferences, Developer, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Payara Community We are pleased to announce that Payara Services’ Fabio Turizo will be delivering a demonstration at DevNexus 2021. Traditionally based in Atlanta, USA, the DevNexus Conference’s goal is to connect professional software developers from all over the world, and help them hear from and interact directly with internationally acclaimed presenters and technologists while also connecting with like-minded developers. Due to Covid-19, this year’s event will be a free, online-only event. Talks will be presented without interruption, after each there will be a live discussion session with the speaker. Continue reading “Payara Services at DevNexus”
Seven Steps to Create a Business Plan Published on 15 Jan 2021 by Sarah RobertsTopics: Fish FoodTagged Community, finance, Fish Food, HR, Payara Community So, following on from my last blog about cashflow, I thought it useful to cover a business plan. There are always opportunities for new businesses. If nothing else, the coronavirus (COVID-19) disruption has given people the time and space they need to be creative and to think of new business ideas. Additionally, the unreliable employment situation is acting as inspiration for people to make the leap and go it alone. However, if you’re serious about creating a business, you’ll need a business plan – and lots of advice. Continue reading “Seven Steps to Create a Business Plan”
Rudy De Busscher at ConFoo 2021 Published on 15 Jan 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: News & EventsTagged Conferences, Developer, event, events, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Microprofile, Payara Community, Rudy De Busscher We are pleased to announce that Rudy De Busscher will be delivering his demonstration, ‘Easy Integration with Testcontainers’, at ConFoo 2021. Originally in Montreal, Canada, ConFoo is a multi-technology conference for developers, gathering over 100 presentations by popular international speakers. This year’s event will be virtual, and will take place online from 22 to 26 February 2021 – with Rudy’s talk to be found on the final day of the conference Continue reading “Rudy De Busscher at ConFoo 2021”
Join Our 2021 Roadmap Update Published on 14 Jan 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: News & EventsTagged Community, Conferences, Developer, events, Java EE, Microprofile, Payara Community Join us on Wednesday January 27th, at 3.00PM GMT, to find out what 2021 looks like for Payara Platform. Our CEO Steve Millidge will be taking a look at the past year for Payara, and then providing a high-level overview of the next year – before zeroing in on the next few months. He will be providing a wider perspective of our products, performance and future plans than in our usual roadmaps, which focus solely on the past few months and what’s coming up in the shorter term – so if you’ve never attended a Payara Roadmap Update before, now is the chance to get full view of the plan for Payara! You’ll also have the chance to ask questions and provide feedback. Continue reading “Join Our 2021 Roadmap Update”
Rudy De Busscher at DeveloperWeek Published on 05 Jan 2021 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: News & EventsTagged Conferences, Developer, Payara Community, Rudy De Busscher Rudy De Busscher will be delivering his demonstration, ‘Creating a Kubernetes Operator in Java’ at DeveloperWeek 2021. This is an annual event gathering developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, managers and executives from over 70 countries to discover the latest in developer technologies, languages, platforms, and tools – this year conducted virtually. Continue reading “Rudy De Busscher at DeveloperWeek”
Thank You Community Contributors Published on 22 Dec 2020 by Priya Khaira-HanksTopics: News & EventsTagged Community, GitHub, Payara Community At Payara Services, we welcome Community contributions through our GitHub. We’re keen to celebrate hard working open source pioneers who are essential to the work we do. Two of our values as a company are openness – being open to new ideas, and ready to share and collaborate with others – and community – building strong relationships both internally and externally. We hope to make our Community of contributors, who work with us to make our product better and drive innovation, feel included and supported. The ways our contributors have developed the platform this year have been varied and wide-ranging, and encompass MicroProfile, security, and various bug fixes. Continue reading “Thank You Community Contributors”
