Name: Manawyrm
Title/Job Description: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Company: Hetzner Cloud
Location/Country: Germany
First AArch64 device: iPhone 5S
First general purpose AArch64 device: Raspberry Pi 3
Twitter Handle: manawyrm
Favorite Book/Movie/Song/TV Show: The Cuckoo’s Egg/Matrix (1999)/It’s A Hard Life/MythBusters
Hey!
my name is Manawyrm, working at Hetzner Cloud as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.
Recently, I’ve been integrating Arm64 virtualization support into our Cloud environment as part of the Platform team.
Our experience in integrating the Ampere Altra devices into our platform was (almost unexpectedly) pretty much pain-free. The UEFI/ACPI environment felt like just another server, just with different binaries.
I had previously used Ampere Altra servers to run a larger cluster for internal applications (PostgreSQL, nginx, Django, etc.) with a lot of success.
Arm has quickly managed to become my daily driver platform on basically all devices I use (laptop, router, cable modem, NAS, phone, tablet, etc.).
In my spare time, I like to work on portable Arm64 devices like the Pinebook Pro, RockPro64 and ODROID-GO Advance.
I have a bit of a faible for weird and wonderful CPU architectures and like to use and work with devices with weird ones (SuperH? CR16C? )
I’d love to see some work done on the PCIe controllers (memory without nGnRE!) and newer cores with support for features like Nested Virtualization! Excited to see and try the new and upcoming generations of Ampere CPUs!
Saw a bunch of familiar names in the Introductions, so Hi everyone!