Steve Millidge is the Director and Founder of Payara and the Technical Director at C2B2. He is an Expert Group member for JSR 286 (Portals), JSR 347 (Data Grids) and JSR 107 (Caching). Steve has used Java extensively since pre1.0 and has been a field based professional service consultant for over 10 years and has extensive experience of deploying large scale production Java Middleware Systems. Steve has spoken at a number of events on performance and scalability of web systems including Java One, JBoss World, UK Oracle User Group Conference and Special Interest Groups, JaxLondon, GeeCon, The Server Side Symposium, Community One; and regularly presents technical workshops on GlassFish, Java EE, Data Grids and Big Scale Java. twitter: @l33tj4v4