Oxide builds servers (as they should be) (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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 – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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

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Chapitres

1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Square (00:01:04)

https://changelog.com/square

3. Theme song (00:02:41)

4. HBO's Silicon Valley (00:03:01)

5. Principles & values (00:06:31)

6. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:22:28)

https://info.sourcegraph.com/changelog

7. Why start Oxide? (00:25:31)

8. RISC-V (00:40:29)

9. Shouting in the datacenter (00:53:26)

10. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:58:52)

https://firehydrant.io/

11. Sponsor: MongoDB (01:00:16)

https://www.mongodb.com/changelog

12. The ideal customer (01:01:19)

13. Hubris & Humility (01:12:10)

14. Twitter Space (01:20:53)

15. Goodbye (01:25:00)

16. Outro (01:25:57)

17. Moar Silicon Valley! (01:28:48)