Books in the Box V
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Revisiting an annual tradition--Books in the Box! Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends share book reco...
AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
LLMs have had a dramatic impact on education. There are obvious reasons for concern, but what about ...
Systems Software in the Large
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Pacheco is leading Oxide's multi-year effort around full-system update. He recently gave a talk...
Scaling Manufacturing
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide manufacturing team to talk about all that goes in...
Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Neumann joined Bryan and Adam to discuss his blog post from 2015, examining the work of Carlot...
The Promises of Tech with Scott Hanselman
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Hanselman gave a terrific talk about the promises of tech: connection, convenience and creativ...
Oxide's $100M Series B
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oxide raised its $100M Series B round of venture capital. Oxide's founders, Bryan and Steve, answer ...
Adventures in Data Corruption
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Two years ago, the Oxide team encountered data corruption during a fairly simple network data transf...
When Async Attacks!
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
What happens when the Oxide API is slow? A podcast episode! More specifically, one about how the tea...
Diving In with Robert Bogart
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On the heels of Bryan's blog post about the similarities between aspiring college athletes finding a...
Debugger-Driven Development
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Building systems software can be quite opaque, leading to the need for great debugging tools. At Oxi...
AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Last week, our colleague (and frequent Oxide and Friends guest) Steve Klabnik made some new friends ...
AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Late in 2024, an economics paper captured the attention of the world. AI, it claimed, had a tremendo...
RIP USENIX ATC
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam discuss the recent announcement of the discontinuation of the USENIX Annual Technical...
Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Matthew Sanabria joins Bryan and Adam to talk about his role at Oxide--Solutions Software Engineer--...
Shootout at the CNCF Corral
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Last week the kerfuffle between Synadia and CNCF, tussling over the ownership and futures of NATS, b...
Bringing up Cosmo
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Oxide is bringing up its next generation server. To discuss the (amazingly smooth) bringup process, ...
Character Limit with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam have been gushing for months over Character Limit, the fantastic book by Kate Conger ...
Hell is other networks
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
An Oxide customer encountered a peculiar issue at the intersection of their Oxide network and their ...
Raiding the Minibar
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Much of the work at Oxide goes into hardware and software used to build and test the eventual produc...
Lip-Bu Tan's Intel
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Intel has a new CEO! And it's Lip-Bu Tan. We had assumed it would not be Lip-Bu--he was such a clear...
A Happy Day For Rust
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Recently, a change to a utility in the Rust toolchain changed behavior in a way that impacted users....
A Crate is Born
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleagues Andrew, Rain, and John to talk about creating a gener...
Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The value of transparency in engineering can have huge benefits--nothing can compare to the momentum...
A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Randy Shoup joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to look at the history of Silicon Valley throu...
Textual UIs with Orhun Parmaksız
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ratatui is a Rust framework for building rich--and incredible--UIs in the terminal. Bryan and Adam w...
AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
DeepSeek was a disruptive surprise at the start of 2025--an open weights model trained at a fraction...
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Robert Mustacch...
Crates We Love
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Love Rust? Us too. One of its great strengths is its ecosystem of crates. Rain, Eliza, and Steve fro...
Predictions 2025
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The annual predictions tradition returns for 2025! Bryan and Adam were joined by Simon Willison, Mik...
OxF 2024 Wrap-Up
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam look back on the year of Oxide and Friends episodes, reflecting on favorite shows, mo...
Scaling Bluesky with Paul Frazee
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Paul Frazee joins Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about the inner workings of Bluesky and...
Conferences in Tech
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam were joined by Theo Schlossnagle, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, and Steve O'Grady to talk abo...
Intel after Gelsinger
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Holy Sh**! Pat Gelsinger announced his "retirement" leaving a rudderless Intel without a captain. Ho...
Technical Blogging
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam were joined by authors of the forthcoming book "Writing for Developers", Piotr Sarna ...
Books in the Box IV
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The 4th installment of the Oxide and Friends book recommendation series. After a brief(ish) diversio...
Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino)
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
George Cozma of Chips and Cheese joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about AMD's new 5...
Querying Metrics with OxQL
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleague, Ben Naecker, to talk about OxQL--the Oxide Query Lang...
RTO or GTFO
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With Amazon's return to office (RTO) mandate in the news, Bryan and Adam revisit the topic (it's bee...
Reflecting on Founder Mode
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With some time passed, Bryan and Adam offer a non-hot take on Paul Graham's "Founder Mode" post. Whi...
RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
RFDs--Requests for Discussion--are how we at Oxide discuss... just about everything! Technical desig...
Whither CockroachDB?
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Lots of engineering decisions get made on vibes. Popularity, anecdotes—they can lead to expedient ...
The Saga of Sagas
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Oxide control plane coordinates multiple services to do complex, compound operations. Early on, ...
Pragmatic LLM usage with Nicholas Carlini
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his terrific blog post on his many pragmatic us...
CrowdStrike BSOD Fiasco with Katie Moussouris
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam were joined by security expert, Katie Moussouris, to discuss the largest global IT ou...
Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Raja Koduri joined Bryan and Adam to answer a question sent in from a listener: what's are the diffe...
Innovation Tokens with Charity Majors
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Charity Majors joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about the idea of "innovation token...
Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble?
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Every so often we like to give our Oxide and Friends hot takes (or as Adam puts it "Bryan getting tr...
Musing with Changelog's Adam Stacoviak
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam were joined by The Changelog’s Adam Stacoviak for a … wide ranging conversation! ...
Rebooting a datacenter: A decade later
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Back in May 2014 Joyent accidentally rebooted an entire datacenter (not just the handful of nodes as...
Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The long-awaited Oxide and Friends bookclub! Bryan and Adam were joined by special guest--and real l...
All we have to fear is FUD itself
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Oxide Friends have talked about the Hashicorp license change, the emergence of an open source fo...
A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan, Adam, Steve, and the Oxide Friends are joined by the founders of the Oakland Ballers, the con...
Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Andres Freund joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his discovery of the xz backdoor. It’s an incred...
Cultural Idiosyncrasies
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Oxide Friends talk about about cultural idiosyncrasies--turns out we have a lot of them at Oxide...
Adversarial Machine Learning
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about his work with adversarial m...
Data Visualization
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Data visualization is an important--and overlooked!--tool in the software engineer's tool belt. Brya...
Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam are joined by members of the Oxide storage team--Josh, Alan, James, and Matt--to talk...
Innovation Stagnation?
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sometimes Bryan gets trolled by a tweet and brings it to Adam and the Oxide Friends. This was a well...
Helios
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Josh Clulow, Patrick Mooney, and Steve Klabnik to disc...
What's taking so long?!
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We love Rust at Oxide, but the haters aren’t wrong: builds can be slow. Bryan and Adam are joined ...
Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a recent article maligning open source large languag...
Predictions 2024!
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam are joined by MIT Research Scientist, Michael Cafarella, for our annual predictions e...
AMD's MI300 and the Future of Accelerated Compute
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
George Cozma from Chips and Cheese and Jordan Ranous from Storage Review joined Adam, Bryan, and the...
Framework Computer with Nirav Patel
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nirav Patel, CEO and founder of Framework Computer, join Bryan and Adam to talk about building a new...
OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
So… OpenAI happened… and Bryan and Adam try it break it down with help from Steve Tuck and even ...
Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam were joined by Gergely Orosz, the Pragmatic Engineer, to talk about Oxide's hiring pr...
Launching the Cloud Computer
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Oxide Founder and CEO, Steve Tuck, joined Bryan, Adam, and Oxide Friend, Steve Klabnik, to talk abou...
Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob joined Adam and Bryan to continue their panel discussion with Bryan f...
Settling Beef
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Recently, a clip from Oxide and Friends was played by another podcast as something of a punching bag...
Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Adam and the Oxide Friends follow Bryan on Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride as he investigates performance anom...
DTrace at 20
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam reminisce about the DTrace journey 20 years after first integrating the code into Sol...
Open Source Anti-Patterns with Kelsey Hightower
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Kelsey Hightower joined Bryan and Adam to revisit a topic Bryan had spoken about a decade ago: corpo...
Fork in the road for Terraform?
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On August 10th, HashiCorp made the controversial decision to re-license some of the popular, formerl...
No Silver Bullets
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Steve Klabnik discuss Fred Brooks' essay "No Silver Bullets"--ostensibly apropos of nothin...
Books in the Box III
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In an Oxide and Friends tradition, Bryan and Adam invite the community to share book recommendations...
The Frontend of the Computer
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam were joined by Justin and David from the Oxide team to talk about their work on the O...
Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide operations team to discuss the logistics of actua...
Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On this week's show, Adam Leventhal posed questions from Hacker News (mostly) to Oxide founders Brya...
Okay, Doomer: A Rebuttal to AI Doom-mongering
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam offer a rebuttal to the AI doomerism that has been gaining volume. And--hoo-boy--this...
Software Verificationpalooza
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Greg and Rain from the Oxide team joined Bryan and Adam to talk about powerful methods of verifying ...
Virtualizing Time
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jordan Hendricks joined Bryan and Adam to talk about her work virtualizing time--particularly challe...
Open Source Governance
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam are joined by Ashley Williams to talk about open source governance... and the recentl...
Building Together: Oxide and Samtec
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam are joined by Jonathan and Jignesh from Samtec to discuss working together to build t...
The Network Behind the Network
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Arjen, Matt, John, and Nathaneal to talk about the man...
Blue Skies Over Mastodon (with Erin Kissane and Tim Bray)
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Erin Kissane joins Bryan and Adam to talk the new social network "Bluesky" through the lens of her b...
Rust Trademark: Argle-bargle or Foofaraw?
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Rust Foundation caused a fracas with their proposed new trademark rules. Bryan and Adam were luc...
Cabling the Backplane
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam are joined by Doug Wibben and Robert Keith to talk about the mechanical design of the...
Get You a State Machine for Great Good
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Andrew Stone of Oxide Engineering joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about his purpos...
Does a GPT future need software engineers?
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam and the Oxide Friends take on GPT and its implications for software engineering. Many...
On Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Eric Vishria of Benchmark and Oxide CEO, Steve Tuck, join Bryan and Adam to talk about Silicon Valle...
Rack-scale Networking
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bryan and Adam are joined by a number of members of the Oxide networking team to talk about the netw...
Memory Safety with Yael Grauer
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Yael Grauer joined Bryan, Adam, Steve Klabnik, and the Oxide Friends to talk about her recent Consum...
Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Members of the Oxide team join Bryan and Adam to talk about our journey through compliance (spoiler:...
Revisiting Unikernels
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Oxide and Friends: January 23rd, 2023Revisiting UnikernelsWe've been hosting a live show weekly on M...
The Power of Proto Boards!
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; he...
Predictions 2023!
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
See github for the list of predictions (and add your own!)
Breaking it down with Ian Brown
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Break it down with Ian BrownWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour...
A Debugging Odyssey
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A Debugging OdysseyWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and rec...
Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Oxide and Friends: December 12th, 2022Podcasts for Podcast-LoversWe've been hosting a live show week...