Posts from Steve Millidge

Steve Millidge is the founder, CEO and technical director of Payara Services. He is an expert in Java EE, Jakarta EE and MicroProfile, and a Project Lead for the Eclipse Foundation GlassFish and the Jakarta EE platforms. Steve has spoken at a number of events about the performance and scalability of Java systems, including Java One, JBoss World, UK Oracle User Group Conference and Special Interest Groups, JaxLondon, GeeCon, EclipseCon, and Jakarta EE Live Stream. He regularly presents technical workshops and webinars on Jakarta EE, Microprofile and big scale Java. Steve has been working with Java since pre-1.0 and has worked on large scale distributed applications and application servers since the 1990s. Before founding Payara Services, Steve ran a consultancy company providing advice and guidance on architecting, building and running at scale large web applications on Java technologies. Steve has a keen interest in non-functional attributes of big scale Java.

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How Micro is Payara Micro?

Published on 05 Jun 2015 by Steve Millidge
Topics: Payara Micro, Microservices | 1 Comment

Elastic Middleware describes middleware capable of expanding and contracting quickly on demand. A common example is the ability for an application server cluster to quickly expand the number of cluster nodes to meet an unpredicted surge in the level of traffic.

Running Java EE applications with Payara Micro on the Raspberry Pi

Published on 13 May 2015 by Steve Millidge
Topics: Java EE, Payara Micro, Microservices | 4 Comments

Payara Micro is a new way of running Java EE applications without having to install a full application server.

Introducing Payara Micro

Published on 26 Apr 2015 by Steve Millidge
Topics: Payara Micro, Microservices | 7 Comments

We are about to release the latest version of Payara (4.1.152) and one of the cool new features that is experimental in this release is Payara Micro.

Using the JCache API with CDI on Payara Server

Published on 03 Feb 2015 by Steve Millidge
Topics: Hazelcast, Caching, CDI, Clustering, Scalability | 1 Comment

The latest release of Payara Server 4.1.151 includes Hazelcast as a builtin JSR107 JCache implementation this means with Payara Server you can start building applications that uses a robust data grid as a caching tier with a standard api.

Payara Server 151 Sneak Preview - Hazelcast Session Persistence

Published on 17 Dec 2014 by Steve Millidge
Topics: Hazelcast, Clustering, Scalability | 0 Comments

Payara Server 4.1.151 is due out at the end of January so we thought we'd give you a sneak preview of some of the features coming, in this case Hazelcast Session Persistence.

The New Fish on the Block

Published on 06 Nov 2014 by Steve Millidge
Topics: Payara Server, news and events | 0 Comments

Payara server continues where Oracle left off

Launched in October 2014, Payara is a new technical support service that delivers software updates, bug fixes and 24/7 support for Oracle’s GlassFish application server. The organisation formed to fill the space left by Oracle’s own announcement that it would no longer release Oracle GlassFish Server with commercial support from November 2013.

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