
Oxide builds servers (as they should be) (Interview)
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Today we have a special treat: Bryan Cantrill, co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer! You may know Bryan from his work on DTrace. He worked at Sun for many years, then Oracle, and finally Joyent before starting Oxide.
We dig deep into their company’s mission/principles/values, hear how it it all started with a VC’s blank check that turned out to be anything but, and learn how Oxide’s integrated approach to hardware & software sets them up to compete with the established players by building servers as they should be.
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Featuring:
- Bryan Cantrill – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
- Oxide Computer
- Pierre Lamond
- Brendan Gregg shouting in the datacenter
- On Hubris and Humility: developing an OS for robustness in Rust
- Oxide on My Wrist: Hubris on PineTime was the best worst idea
- Omicron: Oxide control plane
- Oxide on Twitter
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Oxide Computer
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changelog.comSquare
changelog.comSourcegraph
info.sourcegraph.comabout.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
about.sourcegraph.comFireHydrant
firehydrant.iofirehydrant.io
firehydrant.ioMongoDB
mongodb.comWebsite
bcantrill.dtrace.orgGitHub
github.comLinkedIn
linkedin.comBluesky
bsky.appMastodon
mastodon.socialX
x.comWebsite
jerodsanto.netGitHub
github.comLinkedIn
linkedin.comMastodon
changelog.socialX
x.comWebsite
gerhard.ioGitHub
github.comLinkedIn
linkedin.comX
x.comPierre Lamond
en.wikipedia.orgBrendan Gregg shouting in the datacenter
youtube.comOmicron: Oxide control plane
github.comOxide on Twitter
twitter.comPRs welcome!
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- 0:00Opener
- 1:04Sponsor: Square
- 2:41Theme song
- 3:01HBO's Silicon Valley
- 6:31Principles & values
- 22:28Sponsor: Sourcegraph
- 25:31Why start Oxide?
- 40:29RISC-V
- 53:26Shouting in the datacenter
- 58:52Sponsor: FireHydrant
- 1:00:16Sponsor: MongoDB
- 1:01:19The ideal customer
- 1:12:10Hubris & Humility
- 1:20:53Twitter Space
- 1:25:00Goodbye
- 1:25:57Outro
- 1:28:48Moar Silicon Valley!