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From Sun to Oxide (Interview)
May 22, 2024 · 2 hr 32 min · 146.6 MB
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Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, joins Adam to share his journey from Sun to Oxide – from Sun and Fishworks, to DTrace, to ZFS, to Joyent and Node.js, and now working to build on-prem cloud servers as they should be at Oxide.
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Show Notes:
- Shouting in the Datacenter
- Efficiency you can hear
- Joyent
- Changelog Interviews #475: Making the ZFS file system with Matt Ahrens, co-founder of the ZFS project
- Oxide
- Oxide Principles
- Oxideo Docs: Hypervisor and Storage
- Changelog Interviews #155: The Future of Node.js with Scott Hammond
- TJ Holowaychuk’s Farewell Node.js
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- 0:00Welcome to The Changelog
- 1:19Sponsor: Sentry
- 4:33Start the show!
- 5:31Are you popular?
- 7:17Screaming into the server
- 14:31Latency from vibration
- 20:17Sun the beginning
- 35:01The creation of ZFS
- 37:30ZFS in Crucible (Oxide's storage service)
- 41:51Oracle's acquisition of Sun
- 46:26IPO not acquired (by Oracle)
- 48:46Sponsor: Tailscale
- 51:48Node.js, io.js & Joyent
- 1:05:36The literal begining of Oxide
- 1:25:19Living the "Silicon Valley" way
- 1:27:27Oracle's motivation to acquire Sun
- 1:35:48Sponsor: Neon
- 1:37:49Who's on-prem friendly?
- 1:42:33The gravity of Oxide
- 1:45:05Are you contrarian by nature?
- 1:48:53Do you have product market fit?
- 1:50:39The effects of your success
- 1:55:24Total addressable market of Oxide
- 1:58:08Servicing at scale
- 2:05:13Do you need to raise again?
- 2:07:36What season of Silicon Valley are you in?
- 2:12:00Did you tell them no?
- 2:13:33What is the best fit for Oxide (right now)?
- 2:15:27Who can we help connect you with?
- 2:22:37Oxide makes their own hardware
- 2:23:49Adam is impressed
- 2:24:55Let's talk Silicon Valley
- 2:29:34That was epic! BTW...we're at Build 2024.