Hats off to Jelastic’s leading team
We all know the famous expression: “birds of a feather flock together”. This saying is perfect to describe the amazing group of people whose work made Jelastic the best Java and PHP PaaS in the world (in our opinion!). We wanted to show you who’s behind Jelastic so that you can see for yourself how it became the awesome platform you enjoy today.
Here’s a look at the headline acts:
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Mark Zbikowski – Designer of MS-DOS
Mark Zbikowski, veteran Microsoft architect and developer, designed the DOS executable file format and was one of the key developers of Windows NTFS and Windows 2000/XP/Vista. However you feel about the Windows OS, there’s no denying the significant impact Mark’s prior innovations made. He began his career at Microsoft in 1981, working on DOS 1.0 as a designer, coder and liaison with IBM. His impressive career has also included significant involvement in OS/2, Cairo’s Object File System (OFS), and the NT File System (NTFS). Mark’s recent addition to the Jelastic team adds unrivalled technical expertise.
Leaders in virtualization and data protection
That is, unless you put Mark in the company of Serguei Beloussov, founder of Parallels and Acronis, leaders in container virtualization and data disaster recovery.
Then there’s Michael “Monty” Widenius, the author of the original version of the open-source MySQL database and MariaDB! Pioneers in their respective fields, both work with Jelastic to ensure that our platform is absolutely world class.
Igor Sysoev – Founder of Nginx
David Blevins – Creator of TomEE
Michael “Monty” Widenius – Author of MySQL and MariaDB
Serguei Beloussov – Founder of Parallels & Acronis
We know that there are a lot of TomEE hosting fans among you, so you probably know who David Blevins is. When TomEE joined the family of Tomcat, Glassfish, Jetty, Apache and NGINX already offered by Jelastic, David Blevins showed a lot of enthusiasm: “Jelastic’s support of Tomcat has always been top-notch, and their support of TomEE shows real vision”.
Igor Sysoev, author and chief architect of the high-performance NGINX Web server, powering over 1/3rd of the world’s busiest 1,000 websites, is also a key partner of the Jelastic team.
The Java legend James Gosling recommends Jelastic
James Gosling, the father of Java, loves Jelastic so much that he even uses it for his own projects!
James Gosling – Inventor of Java
“I really love Jelastic… It’s a Java hosting system so you don’t get a bare Linux machine. What you get is a JavaEE container, and you can drop WAR files on it, and they’ve got this really nice control panel where you get a slider that says how many clones of Glassfish do you want, a checkbox that says you want MySQL or Cassandra or Mongo or whatever [database system]. You don’t have to go into the Linux ‘Oh my God, what it takes to install anything.’ It’s like which version of Linux is compatible with which app server and what time… No. They just take care of that and it works lovely.”
Step forward PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf – Creator of PHP
Already celebrated as a leading Java platform, Jelastic added PHP support in late 2012. The opportunity to scale PHP applications with the same finesse Jelastic pioneered for Java attracted a lot of attention. A whole new wave of developers and cutting edge applications now enjoy Jelastic’s powerful features.
You’ve probably heard about one of those developers – it turns out that the PHP pioneer himself, Rasmus Lerdorf, was so impressed by Jelastic’s PHP support that he’s actually joined the team! Now Rasmus is a key member of the Jelastic team, working to make sure that Jelastic’s PHP support remains best in class.
Here at Layershift, we’re proud to be Jelastic’s partners
What did this immense line-up of world-leading “rock star” developer talent produce for you? They forged the best PaaS that we’re very proud to host for you right here on UK soil (actually we keep the servers just a little higher up: they don’t like the soil).
Jelastic enables you to deploy any Java or PHP application in seconds. It automatically scales applications, allocates server resources, and handles all of the boring / complicated “server stuff” for you – all you need to handle is application development. The platform does the rest so you don’t have to.