Presented by

  • Edward Vielmetti

    Edward Vielmetti
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    https://vielmetti.typepad.com

    Ed is the Developer Partner Manager for Open Source at Equinix. In this role he oversees support at Equinix providing computing infrastructure for a number of open source projects. He has extensive experience with networks at all levels - physical, logical, technical, social, political, and financial. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and an alumnus of Cisco Systems and Arbor Networks. Ed is an amateur radio operator (W8EMV) and can be found this summer around Ann Arbor Michigan on his bicycle looking to visit all 162 parks in the city.

Abstract

Equinix is not a typical contributor to the world of open source software. Organized as a real estate investment trust, it operates digital infrastructure around the globe, keeping computing systems powered on and cooled in oer 250 data centers. Ed will describe the current Equinix open source program's origins at Packet, an infrastructure-as-a-service company acquired by Equinix in 2020. The pioneering Works on Arm program brought bare metal access to the then-new arm64 server platform, and welcomed developers to port their software and tools to that architecture at a time when these servers were scarce. The talk will cover lessons learned from a multi-year bootstrapping process to bring arm64 to the data center. From programming languages to build tools to optimization techniques, Ed will discuss the crucial role that access to bare metal hardware at scale makes in enabling software development to succeed.

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