Jacob Smith is a co-founder of Packet, a cloud service provider delivering access to a variety of hardware solutions to facilitate incremental growth and automation. Packet offers developers a bare-metal experience of cloud technologies and automation, while still maintaining the benefit of fast moving silicon through frequent platform refresh.

Mahesh Madhav is a performance engineer at Ampere Computing, and helps developers connect with hardware to squeeze the most out of their Ampere Altra systems. Ampere's partnership with Packet brings hyperscale technology to non-hyperscalers, and proves opportunity for diverse architectures to thrive.