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- 2 days ago1h 6m
The Tale of Reverso
Oxide ships a rack scale system--how test the manufacturing of the backplane and switches? Previously we've been using a collection of sacrificial servers, but this was unwieldy, expensive, and unscalable--all big problems as we ramp up manufacturing to 100s a month! Enter "Reverso", an extremely simple test fixture, that uncovered an extremely complex bug.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Oxide colleagues, Robert "RFK" Keith, Adam "The Hammer" Suczewski, and Matt Keeter.Previously, on Oxide and Friends:OxF s01e26 - The Pragmatism of HubrisOxF s01e24 - The Sidecar SwitchOxF s03e13 - The Network Behind the NetworkOxF s05e23 - Adventures in Data CorruptionSome of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Adam Leventhal, Hardware EngineerdendritePaddle-to-the-SeaPRs needed!If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
- 1 weeks ago1h 29m
AI in Computer Science Education
AI is an existential topic for all aspects of education--for none more so than Computer Science. Bryan and Adam were joined by Kathi Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi, professors of Computer Science at Brown, to discuss their experimental introductory course that strongly incorporates agentic programming. What do students take away from their "smoke the whole pack" approach?In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler, and Will.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:OxF s5e29: AI in Higher Education with Michael LittmanGreenspun's tenth ruleAndy van DamBrown CS15 TetrisWesleyan TetrisGenerating Programs Trivially: Student Use of Large Language ModelsData-Centricity: A Challenge and Opportunity for Computing Education -- Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi FislerLLMs ⭢ Regular Expressions, Responsibly!If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
- 1 weeks ago1h 24m
Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images]
Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide mechanical engineering team to talk the mechanical challenges of building a rack-scale computer, and--in particular--of scaling manufacturing from just a few racks to hundreds. NOTE: Keep an eye on the chapter art for the pictures under discussion.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide Colleagues Elliott Donlon, Brooks Willis, Doug Wibben, and Ben Williams.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Topic[@M:SS](link into recording) Leventhal's ConundrumPRs needed!If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
- 2 weeks ago1h 31m
Are LLMs Insufficently Lazy
Brogrammer Garry Tan has been boasting about "writing" tens of thousands of lines of code each day as the paragon of productivity. Is this really the right way to think about building systems? Bryan and Adam were joined by Polish software engineer, Gregorein, who took a closer look into what Tan was generating to discuss what was found.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our guest (who we introduced a mere 4 minutes in) was gregorein.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Gregorein's twitter threadBryan's blog: The Peril of Laziness LostPRs needed!If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
- Apr 4, 20261h 26m
Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack
The Oxide rack contains within it a distributed system that needs to trust itself. But how is this trust built? Bryan and Adam were joined by colleagues Andrew and Finch to explore how Trust Quorum was designed, built, and verified.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Andrew Stone, and Finch Foner.Previously, on Oxide and Friends:OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM AgeOxF s03e17 - Software VerificationpaloozaOxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM AgeOxF s05e20 - Debugger-Driven DevelopmentSome of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Oxide RFD 238: Trust Quorum and Rack UnlockPRs needed!If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
- Mar 18, 20261h 24m
When Nine Nines Isn't Enough
Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide team to describe the multi-year search for a mysterious source of hardware failures. All related to an ultra-reliable--and yet still not reliable enough--component.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by members of the Oxide team: Nathanael Huffman, Alan Hanson, Cliff Biffle, Eric Aasen, Robert "RFK" Keith, and Jordan Hendricks.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Oxide RFD 630: BMR491 Glitch Mitigation PlanRFK's reportPRs needed!If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
- Feb 27, 20261h 45m
Oxide's $200M Series C
Oxide raised a truckload of capital a few weeks ago to fund the business for the foreseeable future. Bryan and Steve describe the raise, and Adam poses the best the best (and worst) questions scraped from Hacker News.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide CEO, Steve Tuck.Previously on Oxide and Friends:OxF s01e25 - Tales from the Bringup LabOxF s04e30 - Intel after GelsingerOxF s05e24 - Oxide’s $100M Series BOxF s02e18 - Silicon Valley Bank with Eric VishriaOxF s05e28 - Systems Software in the LargeMentioned during the show:Oxide Blog: Our $200M Series COxide is hiring!If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
- Feb 12, 20261h 23m
Shell Game with Evan Ratliff
Evan Ratliff, journalist and podcaster, joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his extraordinary podcast, Shell Game, in which he started a company staffed exclusively by agentic AI.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Evan Ratliff.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Shell GameEvan on This American LifeMIT Review: Moltbook was peak AI theater"Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!"The Startup Chronicles - HurumoAIPRs needed!If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
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Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form.Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCBSubscribe to our calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
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