Ampere ® Developer Summit: How Do Ampere Cloud Native Processors Deliver High Performance and Efficiency
A Preview of our Speakers - Why Ampere’s Cloud Native Processors
In advance of our first Ampere Developer Summit on September 26th, we are excited to spotlight our guest speakers and the topics they will present. Don’t wait - sign up for the event today!
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Why Consider Ampere’s Cloud Native Processors?
While CPU architecture and design trade-offs are not always top of mind for application developers when they are writing code in C, Java, Golang, or Rust, they should be. In the Summit’s first session, Sean Varley, Chief Evangelist at Ampere, will share some of the design features of Ampere CPUs and how they can have a real impact on application performance.
Sean will kick off the session by explaining, “what is a cloud native processor? Simply put, it is designed to work in a modern data center and fits the demands and constraints of modern applications in the cloud. The world needs more compute, but the rising energy consumption cannot be sustained. Cloud native processors are the answer to meeting the high performance and energy efficiency that our world demands.
Considering the needs of application developers is also important. Sean will be joined by Kate Goldenring, Senior Developer from Fermyon, who will talk about how Ampere Cloud Native Processors, with their high core density and low power usage, are a perfect match for WASM-based functions on Kubernetes. Kate will explain how Fermyon achieved exceptional raw performance and performance per watt for WASM applications on Ampere CPUs running Kubernetes with SpinKube.
Sean will also be joined by Dor Laor, CEO and Co-Founder of ScyllaDB, who will share how cloud native processors give distributed cloud native databases the high-performance and predictability they need to produce low-latency responses and high throughput.
With single-threaded cores without simultaneous multi-threading (SMT), Ampere CPUs scale performance linearly – eliminating resource contention caused by two applications fighting for compute time. This also provides a benefit for latency sensitive workloads like databases, caches, and web servers. With Ampere CPUs, you can run your applications at 80% or 90% load before you see a drop-off in latency of responses. Dor will share the results that he and his team have seen running the cloud native database ScyllaDB on Ampere A1 instances on Oracle Cloud.
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Speaker Bios
Kate Goldenring is a Senior Developer at Fermyon and is an open-source contributor. She is the CNCF IoT Group’s co-chair. She has spoken at many locations, including DevOpsDays Seattle (YouTube). You can follow her on X, GitHub, and LinkedIn. In November, she will be speaking at WASMCON on Nov 12th as part of KubeCon.
Dor Laor is the CEO and Founder of ScyllaDB. He has spoken at many events, including being the host of the P99 Conf and you can find him on X, and LinkedIn.
Sean Varley is the Chief Evangelist and VP of Business Development at Ampere. He has been with the company for most of its life, always championing and speaking about how the industry can meet its environmental goals while increasing compute available. You can find him on LinkedIn.
ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL wide-column data store. It was created to be compatible with Apache Cassandra, while focusing on higher throughputs and lower latencies. Ampere’s Mike Bennett gave a presentation on using Scylla DB on Ampere.
SpinKube is an open source project that provides the tools needed to execute WebAssembly in your K8s cluster. Fermyon, Microsoft, Liquid Reply, and SUSE are some of the biggest supporters of SpinKube, which earlier this year was submitted to the CNCF as a Sandbox project. To see their announcement at KubeCon Europe of Spin check it out here.
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