There are an estimated 25+ million software developers in the world, spanning all platforms and languages. Harnessing the creative horsepower and collaboration of tons of smart, passionate engineers in the world will move the industry forward to a cloud native future, with tremendous momentum.
At Ampere, we have been hard at work establishing the first ever Cloud Native Processor, a strong roadmap of products, the critical software elements needed for those products, and a growing list of customers with available instances. The excitement around Ampere products has been invigorating. Now we’re ready to enroll the broader community to realize the high performance, scalability, and sustainability that Ampere technology provides.

Hello, World.

The Ampere Developer Program is designed to harness the creativity of the development community and matchmake it with our world-class processors. This program provides information that is immediately useful for designing, building, deploying, and optimizing cloud native software.

What can you expect to see?

A way to reach developers where they’re at, in a way they can appreciate. Our developer program will educate, inspire, and create a community of like-minded developers who don’t want to sacrifice performance or developer ease for dramatic power benefits. We’re prioritizing our offerings into a few items you’ll recognize this year:

• Porting and Tuning utilities, including Ampere Ready Software where we have been running and publishing a spectrum of 150+ packages regularly for generations of Ampere products to confirm functionality. We’ve created 2 new tools including the Ampere Porting Advisor to provide guidance on transitioning your applications to Ampere, accelerating ports and improving confidence in heterogeneous deployments. And most recently we’ve open-sourced the Ampere Performance Toolkit. This is a benchmarking framework that assists in evaluating performance metrics in a consistent, predictable way across different platforms.
• Developer Outreach, including the Ampere Developer Center web site with 100’s of technical documents, samples, tools, and developer-curated resources in one place, the Developer Impact YouTube series providing quick hits with industry colleagues; a vibrant Developer Community with 100’s of active participants and 1000’s of monthly views sharing experiences. And receive the latest announcements, news, and updates via our Developer Newsletter.
• Customer Success, the variety and availability of Ampere systems continues to grow. Whether you’re an experienced Ampere developer or new to the architecture, there are options for you to evaluate the technology with numerous QuickStart guides available to test drive on common clouds, many of whom have generous trial offerings

Who is this for?

• Software architects can get the information they need to implement the best software and services design. Look for information on choosing the right toolchain and runtime, understanding dependencies, and meeting performance and power requirements.
• Engineers building cloud applications can understand the spectrum of build tools to allow you to confidently move from test to production. Deployment engineers can learn how Ampere products can provide consistent, reliable, well-managed deployments using tools and methods you know.
• Developers and data scientists can find the right information and tools for using data such as Artificial Intelligence toolchains, frameworks, and library options including TensorFlow, PyTorch and ONNX Runtimes, and how to best integrate into your software stacks.
• Enabling the open-source community. Learn how Ampere uses reference platforms and works with open-source communities, including operating system vendors and cloud providers. At Ampere, we understand that developers use systems, learn how Ampere uses reference platforms, how we work with the open-source communities including operating system vendors and cloud providers to align Ampere product features to an upstream-first development approach.

What kind of content will you see?

Expect to see information that fits how you develop. We’ll be providing:

• Workload Briefs to show the benefits of running your favorite workloads on Ampere products in various instances. You’ll see dozens that offer information on performance and benchmarking, along with recipes for reproducing results to ease your transition and design.
• Transition and Tuning Guides to provide step-by-step porting and optimization instructions for individual workloads. See examples on Hadoop, PostgreSQL, and Java, among others.
• Reference Architectures will aid you in deployment by showing step-by-step guides running a generic solution in common environments.
• Developer Blogs will focus on engineering and delivering information, not infomercials. These will be approachable documents that you can digest quickly. We’ll provide information on trending topics, narrow focus or wide interest, or wide interest with examples.
• Tutorials will provide developers and devops the information you need to know for identifying, optimizing, building, and deploying specific workloads and packages. These will be detailed examples including sample code and pointers to repos for accelerating your understanding and use of Ampere products.
• Case Studies and Developer Stories will share real examples from Ampere and our partners who have done the work and want to share their results. You’ll hear real-life stories for software porting, optimization, build and deployments and hear tips and tricks along the way.