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Oxide and Friends

Oxide Computer Company

Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB Subscribe to our calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

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63:34

The Frontend of the Computer

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/07/18

Bryan and Adam were joined by Justin and David from the Oxide team to talk about their work on the Oxide Console--the frontend to the Oxide computer. The rigor they've brought to all aspects of the frontend--client/server type safety, test automation, a11y--it's astounding!We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from July 17th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide

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84:13

Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/07/11

Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide operations team to discuss the logistics of actually assembling the first Oxide Rack, crating it, shipping it... and all the false starts, blind alleys, and failed tests along the way.We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from July 10th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Kate Hicks, Kirstin Neira, CJ

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122:53

Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/07/04

On this week's show, Adam Leventhal posed questions from Hacker News (mostly) to Oxide founders Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck. Stick around until the end to hear about the hardest parts of building Oxide--great, surprising answers from both Bryan and Steve.They were also joined by Steve Klabnik.Questions for Steve and Bryan:[@6:38] Q:Congrats to the team, but after hearing about Oxide for literal years since the beginning of the company and repeatedly reading different iterations of their

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71:21

Okay, Doomer: A Rebuttal to AI Doom-mongering

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/06/27

Bryan and Adam offer a rebuttal to the AI doomerism that has been gaining volume. And--hoo-boy--this one had some range. Heaven’s Gate, ceteris paribus, WWII, derpy security robots, press-fit DIMM sockets, async Rust, etc. And optimistic as always: the hardware and systems AI doomers imagine are incredibly hard to get right; let’s see AIs help us before we worry about our own obsolescence!On this episode Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal were on a rant; but we welcome others on-stage!Some

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81:40

Software Verificationpalooza

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/06/20

Greg and Rain from the Oxide team joined Bryan and Adam to talk about powerful methods of verifying software: formal methods in the form of TLA+ and property-based testing in the form of the proptest Rust crate. If you care about making software right, don't miss it!In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues Greg Colombo and Rain Paharia.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Distributed SagasSteno -- Oxide's implementation of

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65:38

Virtualizing Time

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/06/13

Jordan Hendricks joined Bryan and Adam to talk about her work virtualizing time--particularly challenging when migrating virtual machines from one physical machine to another!We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from June 12th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague Jordan Hendricks.The (lightly edited) live chat from the show:DanCrossNYC: The TSC ticks at a

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85:45

Open Source Governance

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/05/30

Bryan and Adam are joined by Ashley Williams to talk about open source governance... and the recently, and various stumblings of the Rust project leadership.

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80:23

Building Together: Oxide and Samtec

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/05/16

Bryan and Adam are joined by Jonathan and Jignesh from Samtec to discuss working together to build the Oxide Rack. We've all seen bad vendors--what does it mean to be a great partner? Also: silicon photonics are (still!) just 18 months away!

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99:08

The Network Behind the Network

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/05/09

Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Arjen, Matt, John, and Nathaneal to talk about the management network--the brainstem of the Oxide Rack. Just as it ties together so many components, this episode ties together many many (many!) topics we've discussed in other episodes.We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from May 8th 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide

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101:29

Blue Skies Over Mastodon (with Erin Kissane and Tim...

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/05/02

Erin Kissane joins Bryan and Adam to talk the new social network "Bluesky" through the lens of her blog post "Blue Skies Over Mastodon". Long-time friends of Oxide and social-media aficionados Time Bray and Steve Klabnik also helped shed light on technical and social aspects of the net network.Blue Skies Over Mastodon (with Erin Kissane and Tim Bray)We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from May 1st, 2023.In

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82:16

Rust Trademark: Argle-bargle or Foofaraw?

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/04/18

The Rust Foundation caused a fracas with their proposed new trademark rules. Bryan and Adam were lucky enough to be joined by Ashley Williams, Adam Jacob, and Steve Klabnik for an insightful discussion of open source governance and communities--in particular as applied to Rust.Rust Trademark: Argle-bargle or Foofaraw?We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from April 17th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and

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60:30

Cabling the Backplane

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/04/04

Bryan and Adam are joined by Doug Wibben and Robert Keith to talk about the mechanical design of the cabled backplane of the Oxide rack that allows for "blind-mated" server sleds--no network and power cables to plug, unplug, and mis-plug! Watch the chapter art for relevant pictures.We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from April 3rd, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by

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68:22

Get You a State Machine for Great Good

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/03/28

Andrew Stone of Oxide Engineering joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about his purpose-built, replay debugger for the Oxide setup textual UI. Andrew borrowed a technique from his extensive work with distributed systems to built a UI that was well-structured... and highly amenable to debuggability. He built a custom debugger "in a weekend"!Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:tui-rsCrosstermThe reedline crateEpisode about the "Sidecar" switchElm

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99:18

Does a GPT future need software engineers?

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/03/21

Bryan and Adam and the Oxide Friends take on GPT and its implications for software engineering. Many aspiring programmers are concerned that the future of the profession is in jeopardy. Spoiler: the Oxide Friends see a bright future for human/GPT collaboration in software engineering.We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from March 20th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on MM DD

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59:24

On Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/03/17

Eric Vishria of Benchmark and Oxide CEO, Steve Tuck, join Bryan and Adam to talk about Silicon Valley Bank, its role in the startup ecosystem, and the short- and long-term effects of its collapse.We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from March 17th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined special guests Eric Vishria and Steve Tuck.(Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop

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94:27

Rack-scale Networking

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/02/28

Bryan and Adam are joined by a number of members of the Oxide networking team to talk about the networking software that drives the Oxide rack. It turns out that rack-scale networking is hard... and has enormous benefits!We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from February 27th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Ryan Goodfellow, Levon Tarver, Ben Naecker, and Arjen

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77:52

Memory Safety with Yael Grauer

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/02/14

Yael Grauer joined Bryan, Adam, Steve Klabnik, and the Oxide Friends to talk about her recent Consumer Reports article on memory safety and memory safe languages. How do we inform the general public? How do we persuade practitioners and companies? Thanks for joining us, Yael!In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Yael Grauer, and Steve Klabnik.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them (experiment in turning the show live-chat into

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100:47

Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/02/07

Members of the Oxide team join Bryan and Adam to talk about our journey through compliance (spoiler: we passed!). Oxide and Friends: February 6th, 2023 We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from February 6th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on February 6th included Arjen Roodselaar, Nathanael Huffman, Robert Keith, Eric Aasen, and Josh Clulow,Some of the topics we hit on, in the

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83:16

Revisiting Unikernels

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/01/24

Oxide and Friends: January 23rd, 2023Revisiting UnikernelsWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from January 23rd, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on January 23rd included Steve Klabnik, Dan Cross, and others.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Bryan's 2016 blog post Unikernels are unfit for productionIf we got something wrong or missed something, please

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101:32

The Power of Proto Boards!

Oxide and Friends ·

2023/01/17

We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from January 16th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Nathanael Huffman, Cliff Biffle, Rick Altherr, Matt Keeter, Eric Aasen, and Dan Cross.Check out the show notes on github to browse the images.(00:00) - Intro(11:42) - Gemini (18:33) - Root of Trust (RoT) carrier (20:53) - Power (23:41) - Trimmed Power (28:11) - SPI MUX (29:38) -

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