Feb 2025 Ampere Developer Newsletter

Welcome to the Ampere developer newsletter, curated by our DevRel team.

This edition includes a new reference architecture from ShapeBlue and Ampere, a demo for Project BlueFin, and a new video from our Developer Impact series.


Ampere Developer Center

  • Apache CloudStack Reference Architecture: ShapeBlue and Ampere have released a new reference architecture for IaaS on on-prem Ampere servers. Check out this forum post and if you have questions or comments, please post them there for the community.
  • A Developer Perspective on AmpereOne: Empowering Developers and Fueling AI Adoption with AmpereOne® Design Innovations - Dave Neary wrote a detailed blog covering AmpereOne features that were designed to enable AI adoption.
  • Ampere and Friends at KubeCon NA ‘24: Our Developer Relations team released a new video on Ampere’s trip to KubeCon NA ’24. Next up are discussions with OTel, Falco, 8x8, and the OSU-OSL.

From around the web

  • Support of arm64 as a Tier One architecture for OpenTelemetry - express your support by posting a positive emoji.
  • Project Bluefin available on ARM: Do you know about Project Bluefin? It is a community-built Linux distro, focusing on a quality UI built for Cloud developers. They recently announced a release for ARM and the project leader Jorge Castro will be demoing it at SCALE in Pasadena with Ampere.
  • Ampere Blog: How Ampere is Shaping the Future of Data Centers and AI: How Ampere is working with Red Hat to drive Innovation, Scalability, and Sustainability.
  • Jeff Geerling reviewed the “Fastest ARM PC”, the System 76 Thelio Astra: The System 76 Thelio Astra, powered by an Ampere Altra Max CPU was reviewed by Jeff Geerling, and he was impressed! His YouTube review has 527K views as we go to press!

Insights & resources


Events

  • Dev Nexus: March 4-6 in Atlanta, GA. Dave Neary will present on “Boosting your Java Application Performance on Ampere arm64 servers”.
  • SCaLE: March 6-9 in Pasadena, CA. Ampere will have a booth next to System76 – come check out their Ampere workstations. Project BlueFin will be at the Arm booth demoing their project
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