Books in the Box IV
Fri, 01 Nov 2024
The 4th installment of the Oxide and Friends book recommendation series. After a brief(ish) diversio...
Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino)
Wed, 16 Oct 2024
George Cozma of Chips and Cheese joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about AMD's new 5...
Querying Metrics with OxQL
Wed, 02 Oct 2024
Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleague, Ben Naecker, to talk about OxQL--the Oxide Query Lang...
RTO or GTFO
Thu, 26 Sep 2024
With Amazon's return to office (RTO) mandate in the news, Bryan and Adam revisit the topic (it's bee...
Reflecting on Founder Mode
Fri, 20 Sep 2024
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
Fri, 30 Aug 2024
RFDs--Requests for Discussion--are how we at Oxide discuss... just about everything! Technical desig...
Whither CockroachDB?
Wed, 21 Aug 2024
Lots of engineering decisions get made on vibes. Popularity, anecdotes—they can lead to expedient ...
The Saga of Sagas
Wed, 14 Aug 2024
The Oxide control plane coordinates multiple services to do complex, compound operations. Early on, ...
Pragmatic LLM usage with Nicholas Carlini
Fri, 09 Aug 2024
Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his terrific blog post on his many pragmatic us...
CrowdStrike BSOD Fiasco with Katie Moussouris
Thu, 25 Jul 2024
Bryan and Adam were joined by security expert, Katie Moussouris, to discuss the largest global IT ou...
Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri
Thu, 18 Jul 2024
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
Thu, 11 Jul 2024
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?
Thu, 27 Jun 2024
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
Mon, 17 Jun 2024
Bryan and Adam were joined by The Changelog’s Adam Stacoviak for a … wide ranging conversation! ...
Rebooting a datacenter: A decade later
Thu, 30 May 2024
Back in May 2014 Joyent accidentally rebooted an entire datacenter (not just the handful of node as ...
Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball
Wed, 22 May 2024
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
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
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
Wed, 17 Apr 2024
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
Wed, 10 Apr 2024
Andres Freund joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his discovery of the xz backdoor. It’s an incred...
Cultural Idiosyncrasies
Wed, 03 Apr 2024
The Oxide Friends talk about about cultural idiosyncrasies--turns out we have a lot of them at Oxide...
Adversarial Machine Learning
Wed, 27 Mar 2024
Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about his work with adversarial m...
Data Visualization
Fri, 15 Mar 2024
Data visualization is an important--and overlooked!--tool in the software engineer's tool belt. Brya...
Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service
Wed, 14 Feb 2024
Bryan and Adam are joined by members of the Oxide storage team--Josh, Alan, James, and Matt--to talk...
Innovation Stagnation?
Wed, 07 Feb 2024
Sometimes Bryan gets trolled by a tweet and brings it to Adam and the Oxide Friends. This was a well...
Helios
Thu, 01 Feb 2024
Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Josh Clulow, Patrick Mooney, and Steve Klabnik to disc...
What's taking so long?!
Wed, 24 Jan 2024
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
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a recent article maligning open source large languag...
Predictions 2024!
Wed, 10 Jan 2024
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
Mon, 11 Dec 2023
George Cozma from Chips and Cheese and Jordan Ranous from Storage Review joined Adam, Bryan, and the...
Framework Computer with Nirav Patel
Mon, 04 Dec 2023
Nirav Patel, CEO and founder of Framework Computer, join Bryan and Adam to talk about building a new...
OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl
Mon, 27 Nov 2023
So… OpenAI happened… and Bryan and Adam try it break it down with help from Steve Tuck and even ...
Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz
Mon, 06 Nov 2023
Bryan and Adam were joined by Gergely Orosz, the Pragmatic Engineer, to talk about Oxide's hiring pr...
Launching the Cloud Computer
Mon, 30 Oct 2023
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
Mon, 23 Oct 2023
Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob joined Adam and Bryan to continue their panel discussion with Bryan f...
Settling Beef
Mon, 16 Oct 2023
Recently, a clip from Oxide and Friends was played by another podcast as something of a punching bag...
Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride
Mon, 02 Oct 2023
Adam and the Oxide Friends follow Bryan on Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride as he investigates performance anom...
DTrace at 20
Mon, 11 Sep 2023
Bryan and Adam reminisce about the DTrace journey 20 years after first integrating the code into Sol...
Open Source Anti-Patterns with Kelsey Hightower
Mon, 28 Aug 2023
Kelsey Hightower joined Bryan and Adam to revisit a topic Bryan had spoken about a decade ago: corpo...
Fork in the road for Terraform?
Mon, 21 Aug 2023
On August 10th, HashiCorp made the controversial decision to re-license some of the popular, formerl...
No Silver Bullets
Mon, 14 Aug 2023
Bryan and Steve Klabnik discuss Fred Brooks' essay "No Silver Bullets"--ostensibly apropos of nothin...
Books in the Box III
Mon, 24 Jul 2023
In an Oxide and Friends tradition, Bryan and Adam invite the community to share book recommendations...
The Frontend of the Computer
Mon, 17 Jul 2023
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
Mon, 10 Jul 2023
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!
Mon, 03 Jul 2023
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
Mon, 26 Jun 2023
Bryan and Adam offer a rebuttal to the AI doomerism that has been gaining volume. And--hoo-boy--this...
Software Verificationpalooza
Mon, 19 Jun 2023
Greg and Rain from the Oxide team joined Bryan and Adam to talk about powerful methods of verifying ...
Virtualizing Time
Mon, 12 Jun 2023
Jordan Hendricks joined Bryan and Adam to talk about her work virtualizing time--particularly challe...
Open Source Governance
Tue, 30 May 2023
Bryan and Adam are joined by Ashley Williams to talk about open source governance... and the recentl...
Building Together: Oxide and Samtec
Mon, 15 May 2023
Bryan and Adam are joined by Jonathan and Jignesh from Samtec to discuss working together to build t...
The Network Behind the Network
Mon, 08 May 2023
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)
Mon, 01 May 2023
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?
Mon, 17 Apr 2023
The Rust Foundation caused a fracas with their proposed new trademark rules. Bryan and Adam were luc...
Cabling the Backplane
Mon, 03 Apr 2023
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
Mon, 27 Mar 2023
Andrew Stone of Oxide Engineering joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about his purpos...
Does a GPT future need software engineers?
Mon, 20 Mar 2023
Bryan and Adam and the Oxide Friends take on GPT and its implications for software engineering. Many...
On Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria
Fri, 17 Mar 2023
Eric Vishria of Benchmark and Oxide CEO, Steve Tuck, join Bryan and Adam to talk about Silicon Valle...
Rack-scale Networking
Mon, 27 Feb 2023
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
Mon, 13 Feb 2023
Yael Grauer joined Bryan, Adam, Steve Klabnik, and the Oxide Friends to talk about her recent Consum...
Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries
Mon, 06 Feb 2023
Members of the Oxide team join Bryan and Adam to talk about our journey through compliance (spoiler:...
Revisiting Unikernels
Mon, 23 Jan 2023
Oxide and Friends: January 23rd, 2023Revisiting UnikernelsWe've been hosting a live show weekly on M...
The Power of Proto Boards!
Mon, 16 Jan 2023
We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; he...
Predictions 2023!
Mon, 09 Jan 2023
See github for the list of predictions (and add your own!)
Breaking it down with Ian Brown
Mon, 26 Dec 2022
Break it down with Ian BrownWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour...
A Debugging Odyssey
Mon, 19 Dec 2022
A Debugging OdysseyWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and rec...
Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers
Mon, 12 Dec 2022
Oxide and Friends: December 12th, 2022Podcasts for Podcast-LoversWe've been hosting a live show week...
Leaving Twitter with Tim Bray
Mon, 28 Nov 2022
Oxide and Friends: November 28th, 2022Leaving Twitter with Tim BrayWe've been hosting a live show we...
Mastodon with Kris Nova
Mon, 14 Nov 2022
We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (...
Tech Layoffs
Mon, 07 Nov 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 7th, 2022Tech LayoffsWe've been holding a Twitter Space we...
Open Source Firmware
Mon, 31 Oct 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 31st, 2022Open Source FirmwareWe've been holding a Twitter ...
Let That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?)
Thu, 27 Oct 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 27th, 2022Let That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?)We've been ho...
Open Source Inside Baseball (with Stephen O'Grady)
Mon, 24 Oct 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 24th, 2022Open Source Inside BaseballWe've been holding a T...
Holistic Boot
Mon, 10 Oct 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 10th, 2022Holistic BootWe've been holding a Twitter Space w...
Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives
Mon, 03 Oct 2022
Inspired by the incentives at Google that apparently promote launching--but not sustaining--new prod...
Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff
Mon, 26 Sep 2022
Bryan and Adam interview Sean Silcoff, co-author of "Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the ...
Threads, async/await, Promises, Futures
Mon, 12 Sep 2022
A problem has been eating at Adam: we use async/await in many languages and yet we're not so good at...
Potpourri: Product, Platform, Paravirtualization
Mon, 05 Sep 2022
The Oxide Supply Chain
Mon, 29 Aug 2022
Kate Hicks from Oxide operations joins to talk about the supply chain meltdown, war stories from the...
Bringup Lab Chronicles: A Measurement Two Years in the Making
Mon, 22 Aug 2022
The Oxide electrical engineers share their experience bringing up a 100Gb link--it's got everything ...
Surviving Conventional Wisdom
Mon, 15 Aug 2022
Bryan, Adam, and Steve consider nuggets of conventional wisdom that turn out to be turds.
RIP Optane
Mon, 08 Aug 2022
The Oxide Friends pour one out for Optane, Intel's great hope that never managed to find traction.
Deep Tech Investing
Mon, 01 Aug 2022
Seth Winterroth and Ian Rountree join Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about investing in ...
Across the Chasm with Rust
Mon, 18 Jul 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 18th, 2022Across the Chasm with RustWe've been holding a Twitt...
Integrating Hardware and Software Teams
Mon, 11 Jul 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 11th, 2022Integrating Hardware and Software TeamsWe've been ho...
Books in the box redux
Mon, 27 Jun 2022
We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (...
Paths into Systems Programming
Mon, 20 Jun 2022
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The Rise and Fall of DEC
Mon, 13 Jun 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: June 13th, 2022The Rise and Fall of DECWe've been holding a Twitter...
Surviving the Dot-Com Bust
Mon, 23 May 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 23rd, 2022Surviving the Dot-Com BustWe've been holding a Twitte...
Debugging Methodologies
Mon, 16 May 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 16th, 2022Debugging MethodologiesWe've been holding a Twitter S...
Fail Whaling
Mon, 25 Apr 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 25th, 2022Fail WhalingWe've been holding a Twitter Space week...
More Tales from the Bringup Lab
Mon, 18 Apr 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 18th, 2022More Tales from the Bringup LabWe've been holding a...
Another LPC55 ROM Vulnerability
Mon, 04 Apr 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 4th, 2022Another LPC55 ROM VulnerabilityWe've been holding a ...
Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving
Mon, 28 Mar 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 28th, 2022Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and SavingWe’...
Trolltron, Assemble!
Mon, 21 Mar 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 21st, 2022Trolltron, Assemble!We’ve been holding a Twitter ...
Ukraine
Mon, 14 Mar 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 14th, 2022UkraineWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly ...
The Future Of Work
Mon, 07 Mar 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 7th, 2022The Future Of WorkWe’ve been holding a Twitter Spa...
Engineering Culture
Mon, 21 Feb 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: February 21st, 2022Engineering CultureWe’ve been holding a Twitte...
Breakthroughs Delayed
Mon, 14 Feb 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: February 14th, 2022Breakthroughs DelayedWe’ve been holding a Twit...
I Know This! (Purpose-built systems with general-purpose guts)
Mon, 07 Feb 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: February 7th, 2022I Know This! (Purpose-built systems with general-...
Taxonomy of Hype
Mon, 24 Jan 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: January 24th, 2022Taxonomy of HypeWe’ve been holding a Twitter Sp...
Flying Blind with Peter Robison
Mon, 10 Jan 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: January 10th, 2022Flying Blind with Peter RobisonWe’ve been holdi...
Predictions 2022
Mon, 03 Jan 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: January 3rd, 2022Predictions 2022We’ve been holding a Twitter Spa...
The Pragmatism of Hubris
Mon, 13 Dec 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: December 13th, 2021The Pragmatism of HubrisWe’ve been holding a T...
Tales from the Bringup Lab
Mon, 06 Dec 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: December 6th, 2021Tales from the Bringup LabWe’ve been holding a ...
The Sidecar Switch
Mon, 29 Nov 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 29th, 2021The Sidecar SwitchWe’ve been holding a Twitter...
Talking Turkeys
Mon, 22 Nov 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 22nd, 2021Talking TurkeysWe’ve been holding a Twitter Sp...
The Wrath of Kahn
Mon, 15 Nov 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 15th, 2021The Wrath of KahnWe’ve been holding a Twitter ...
Supercomputers, Cray, and How Sun Picked SGI's Pocket
Mon, 08 Nov 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 8th, 2021Supercomputers, Cray, and How Sun Picked SGI’s ...
On Code Review
Mon, 01 Nov 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 1st, 2021On Code ReviewWe’ve been holding a Twitter Spac...
Coder's Block
Mon, 25 Oct 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 25th, 2021Coder’s BlockWe’ve been holding a Twitter Spa...
Dijkstra's Tweetstorm
Mon, 18 Oct 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 18th, 2021Dijkstra’s TweetstormWe’ve been holding a Twi...
Economics and Open Source
Mon, 04 Oct 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 4th, 2021Economics and Open SourceWe’ve been holding a Tw...
The Books in the Box
Mon, 27 Sep 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 27th, 2021The Books in the BoxWe’ve been holding a Twit...
Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud
Mon, 20 Sep 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 20th, 2021Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness...
Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph
Mon, 13 Sep 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 13th, 2021Docker, Inc., an Early EpitaphWe’ve been hold...
Put the OS back in OSDI
Mon, 06 Sep 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 6th, 2021Put the OS back in OSDIWe’ve been holding a Tw...
A brief history of talking computers
Mon, 30 Aug 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 30th, 2021A brief history of talking computersWe’ve been h...
The episode formerly known as ℔
Mon, 23 Aug 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 23rd, 2021The episode formerly known as ℔We’ve been hold...
The Showstopper Show
Mon, 16 Aug 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 16th, 2021The Showstopper ShowWe’ve been holding a Twitter...
Agile + 20
Mon, 26 Jul 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 26, 2021Agile + 20We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly ...
NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories
Mon, 05 Jul 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 5, 2021NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting historiesWe’ve bee...
What's a bug? What's a debugger?
Mon, 21 Jun 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: June 21, 2021What’s a bug? What’s a debugger?We’ve been holdi...
Barracuda 7200.11: broken firmware is broken software!
Mon, 07 Jun 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: June 7, 2021Barracuda 7200.11: broken firmware is broken software!W...
Silicon Cowboys
Mon, 31 May 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 31, 2021Silicon CowboysWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space wee...
from /proc to proc_macro
Mon, 24 May 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 24, 2021from /proc to proc_macroWe’ve been holding a Twitter ...
golang asserts and the PLATO terminal
Mon, 17 May 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 17, 2021golang asserts and the PLATO terminalWe’ve been holdi...
A Requiem for SPARC with Tom Lyon
Mon, 10 May 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 10, 2021A Requiem for SPARC with Tom LyonWe’ve been holding a...
Mr. Leventhal, Come here I want to see you
Mon, 03 May 2021
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 3, 2021Mr. Leventhal, Come here I want to see youWe’ve been h...