# Feb 2025 Ampere Developer Newsletter

**URL:** https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/feb-2025-ampere-developer-newsletter/3200
**Category:** Newsletters
**Created:** [September 19, 2025, 3:23am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/feb-2025-ampere-developer-newsletter/3200 "2025-09-19T03:23:00Z")
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#### Post date: [September 19, 2025, 3:23am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/feb-2025-ampere-developer-newsletter/3200/1 "2025-09-19T03:23:00Z")

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# 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.

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## 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](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/new-shapeblue-ampere-ref-arch-available/1134/4) 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](https://amperecomputing.com/blogs/empowering-developers-and-fueling-ai-adoption-with-ampereone) - 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SBXkHpvORE). Next up are discussions with OTel, Falco, 8x8, and the OSU-OSL.

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## From around the web

- **Support of arm64 as a Tier One architecture for OpenTelemetry -** [express your support](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/11548) by posting a positive emoji.
- **Project Bluefin available on ARM:** Do you know about [Project Bluefin](https://projectbluefin.io/)? It is a community-built Linux distro, focusing on a quality UI built for Cloud developers. They recently announced [a release for ARM](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bluefin-lts-alpha-for-arm/6545) 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](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bluefin-lts-alpha-for-arm/6545) 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](https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/system76-built-fastest-windows-arm-pc), and he was impressed! His [YouTube review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AshDjtlV6go) has 527K views as we go to press!

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## Insights & resources

- **Arm Viewpoints:** [Ampere’s Jeff Wittich on the Future of Data Centers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFNlc9ivXbU) - our Chief Product Officer was a guest on Arm’s podcast _Arm Viewpoints_ about the future of the data center.
- **How to build a PB Ceph Cluster:** Learn how we built [a Petabyte Ceph Cluster](https://amperecomputing.com/blogs/petabyte-ceph-cluster-with-micron-supermicro-and-ampere), working with Micron and Supermicro.

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## 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