Next week, we will welcome you to our first Ampere® Developer Summit, on Thursday, September 26th! In the last installment of our session previews, we're excited to spotlight another session, with two more amazing guest speakers, this week. The event is free and open to all, so if you haven’t done so already, it’s not too late to register today to get a reminder as the event is going live!

In previous posts, we have explored why Ampere CPUs are such a good match for cloud native computing, how AI Inference can be run cost-efficiently on CPUs, and which types of workloads are a particularly good fit for Ampere. This week, we will explore the practical steps involved in adding another architecture for your application deployment, and how they might be easier than you expect!

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Evolving Build, Test, and Deployment Infrastructure to Support Ampere CPUs
A core part of cloud native application development is the creation and automation of a build and deployment process. To ensure continuous availability of applications, modern cloud applications require automated builds, with comprehensive functional, and integration tests, and a process for ensuring that application updates can be delivered to end-users of the software with no service downtime, and minimal impact on the user experience. The days of lengthy downtime while you upgrade your software platform are in the past. In this session, we will hear more from industry experts about how the cloud has fundamentally changed how we build, test, package, and deploy software, and the nuts and bolts of evolving the infrastructure behind Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery to add another deployment architecture so that your applications can be deployed to Ampere infrastructure.

What you will learn

• How cloud native computing has changed everything: Dave Neary will talk about how modern application development has affected how we build, test, and deploy applications, and the ways in which the tools and processes that manage this process need to change as you support a new computer architecture like Ampere.
• Building and testing a multi-architecture software product on GitHub: Stackable is an open source data platform product built on best-in-breed open source projects from the Apache project. Maximilian Wittich will talk us through how Stackable uses GitHub Actions to build, test, and package their product on Ampere instances, and how they deliver a multi-architecture product to their customers.
• How Uber supports multiple architectures in a global-scale service: As part of Uber’s journey to deploying their applications on Ampere-driven OCI A1 and A2 instances, Andreas Winther Lykke has worked on every aspect of evolving their Continuous Delivery infrastructure. He will guide us through the key steps involved in migrating applications to Ampere instances, including the creation of a common operating system for all virtual machines and the evolution of their CI/CD infrastructure to support multi-architecture images and streamline application lifecycle management.

Speaker Profiles

Dave Neary leads the Developer Relations team at Ampere Computing, helping raise awareness and adoption of Ampere Arm64 processors in cloud computing. In a career spanning 25 years, Dave has worked as a software developer and open source community manager, with a focus on open-source infrastructure projects and developer tooling.

Maximilian Wittich is a software developer at Stackable, focusing on building scalable solutions for cloud-native applications. He contributes to open-source projects and specializes in infrastructure and distributed systems. His work emphasizes performance optimization and cloud orchestration. In addition to his work with Stackable, he is also a professional dancer.

Andreas Winther Lykke is a senior software engineer at Uber’s Cloud Platform, which manages thousands of microservices. His focus has previously been on building container images at scale and automating the deployment process at Uber. Currently, he is focused on Uber's migration to Arm-based Hardware from Ampere.

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Be sure to join us for this exciting session at the Ampere Developer Summit. Learn from the experts how Ampere CPUs can unlock new levels of performance and cost-efficiency for your cloud workloads. Register now to reserve your spot and receive updates leading up to the event!