In March, I’ve started working for Payara and I’ve definitely enjoyed it since then. It’s been very refreshing. I really love all the new experience, including

• the startup-like company culture (have a look at the courageous company web site)
• being part of the Payara open-source project and community
• helping customers directly instead of programming in an IT department several layers below
• writing technical blogs and cooperating with our innovative marketing department
• being the face of the Payara project and evangelist in Java EE community
• and all this working remotely from home

I could write several posts about all this new experience. Hopefully another time. But now, I will just share the blog posts and screen casts about Payara Server features that I’ve authored and co-authored.

My first blog about Payara Server:

• How to use the OpenMQ Broker separately to Payara Server
  • Payara Server comes bundled with OpenMQ, which implements the Java Message Service (JMS) standard. The default embedded mode is convenient for simple deployments, but there are other 2 modes that provide more robust setup and additional features.

My first screen cast:

• Deploying Multiple Application Versions on Payara Server
  • a demo on how to deploy multiple versions of an application on running Payara Server and how to take advantage of this feature

And several other blogs, mostly about administration & maintenance of Payara Server:

• Administration & Maintenance of Payara Server – Guide
  • This guide shortly summarizes some of the very useful maintenance features of Payara Server (backing up and restoring, execution of admin commands in batch, monitoring, deployment of multiple application versions)
• Securing Payara Server with Custom SSL Certificate
  • You might have a self-signed certificate or a certificate signed by a trusted authority. In both cases it is pretty easy to add them to a Payara Server domain and use them to secure communication channels. However, the process involves several steps, which are summarized in this post.
• The Health Check Service In-Depth – Payara Server
  • Deep dive into one of the new features of Payara Server – Health Check Service. It allows automatic self-monitoring, in order to detect future problems as soon as possible. When enabled, the Health Check Service periodically checks some low level metrics and logs warnings whenever it detects that a threshold is not met.