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A Crate is Born
6 maart 2025 · 1 uur 43 min
Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleagues Andrew, Rain, and John to talk about creating a general purpose crate for diffing structures. More generally, how do you know when something new is needed? How do you know when the investment of time to validate an idea is warranted? Software engineering is hard! (And also: general enthusiasm for Rust macros.) Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Andrew Stone, Rain Paharia, and John Gallagher.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Checking in on Bryan's 1 Year Intel CEO prediction
Hiring letter to Intel's co-CEO
From The Register "Re-hire Gelsinger!"
Oxide RFD 457: Control plane sled lifecycle
Oxide RFD 459: Control plane component lifecycle
daft crate
diffus crate
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Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces
28 februari 2025 · 1 uur 49 min
The value of transparency in engineering can have huge benefits--nothing can compare to the momentum of an enthusiastic community! Bryan and Adam discuss the value of transparency at the hardware/software interface with Oxide colleague, Ryan Goodfellow. Transparency can be scary--especially in the hardware domain where secrecy is the norm--but once we knock down some of those fears, the business benefits start to emerge. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Ryan Goodfellow.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Oxide RFD 552: Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces
Belling the cat
openSIL
Kerckhoff's principle
PRs needed!
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A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup
24 februari 2025 · 1 uur 57 min
Randy Shoup joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to look at the history of Silicon Valley through the lens of Randy's 50 years--as the child of graphics legend, Dick Shoup; an intern at Intel; aspiring diplomat; engineering leader; and father to the next generation of Shoup engineers. Lees meer
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Textual UIs with Orhun Parmaksız
13 februari 2025 · 1 uur 33 min
Ratatui is a Rust framework for building rich--and incredible--UIs in the terminal. Bryan and Adam were joined by Orhun Parmaksız, who leads the project, to discuss the glory--as well as the ubiquity and utility!--of TUIs. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Orhun Parmaksız. We were also joined by slightly-less-special guests Andrew Stone, Rain Paharia, and Josh Clulow.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Ratatui
Orhun's blog
Orhun's FOSDEM 2025 talk (YT) or (fosdem.org) with slides link etc.
Minitel
Minitel rust stack
ratatui on Minitel
Spotify player tui
Discord TUI
Orhun: tui-rs to ratatui transition blog post
OxF: Oxide's ratatui based configuration
tui-rs
OxF: Describing the Oxide management network
Ratzilla
Terminal Collective
tui web bub / art
ratatui testing with snapshots
rizzup
tui-realm
Asterion (game)
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AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras
6 februari 2025 · 1 uur 31 min
DeepSeek was a disruptive surprise at the start of 2025--an open weights model trained at a fraction of the cost of previous models. Bryan and Adam were joined by Andy Hock and James Wang from Cerebras, whose wafer-scale silicon executes these models faster than is possible with any number of GPUs. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Andy Hock, and James Wang, both of Cerebras.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
interactive inference with Cerebras
100x Defect Tolerance: How Cerebras Solved the Yield Problem
Tweet from Eric Meijer
Ouroborus
Quine Relay
Simon Willison’s Weblog when DeepSeek fell from space
Tweet from Naveen Rao
BONUS
MST3K archive
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Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi
23 januari 2025 · 1 uur 51 min
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Robert Mustacchi. Lees meer
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Experiences Porting KVM to SmartOS
Meltdown and Spectre
Robert's "Big Theory Statement" for MAC
Robert's "Big Theory Statement" for cpuid
AGESA
OxF: Put the OS back in OSDI
Oxide RFD 63: Network Architecture
Oxide RFD 82: Motivations and Principles for the Design of Operator Facilities
Oxide RFD 88: Chassis Management Responsibility Allocation
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Crates We Love
16 januari 2025 · 1 uur 33 min
Love Rust? Us too. One of its great strengths is its ecosystem of crates. Rain, Eliza, and Steve from the Oxide team join Bryan and Adam to talk about the crates we love. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Rain Paharia, Eliza Weisman, and Steve Klabnik.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
prettyplease
winnow
Blessed.rs crate list
Adam's codegen template
miette
eliza_error
serde_path_to_error
ratatui
Ratatui episode on January 27th!
modular-bitfield
lexopt
loom
OxF: Software Verificationpalooza
CDSCHECKER: Checking Concurrent Data Structures Written with C/C++ Atomics
The Postcard Wire Format
postcard
BBQueue Explained [video]
petgraph
U2
MatrixGraph in petgraph::matrix_graph
What does ## (double hash) do in a preprocessor directive? - Stack Overflow
samitbasu/rhdl: A Hardware Description Language based on the Rust Programming Language
httpmock
camino
OxF: The episode formerly known as ℔
OxF: Dijkstra's Tweetstorm - YouTube
evmap
buf-list
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Predictions 2025
10 januari 2025 · 2 uur 2 min
The annual predictions tradition returns for 2025! Bryan and Adam were joined by Simon Willison, Mike Cafarella, Steve Tuck, and Steve Klabnik to review past predictions and look 1-, 3-, and 6-years into the future. Lees meer
See the table of predictions on GitHub.
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OxF 2024 Wrap-Up
30 december 2024 · 1 uur 34 min
Bryan and Adam look back on the year of Oxide and Friends episodes, reflecting on favorite shows, moments, and (at length) cover images. Lees meer
Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Oxide and Friends 2024 in Images
OxF: Musing With Changelog's Adam Stacoviak
OxF: I know this!
OxF: What's taking so long?
XKCD: Dependency
OxF: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund
Making the background image
OxF: Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison
OxF bonus blather 9/16/2024
OxF: Cultural Idiosyncrasies
OxF: Technical Blogging
OxF: RFDs: the Backbone of Oxide
OxF: RTO or GTFO
OxF: Unshrouding Turin
OxF: Adversarial Machine Learning
OxF: Innovation Stagnation
OxF: Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri
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Scaling Bluesky with Paul Frazee
19 december 2024 · 1 uur 41 min
Paul Frazee joins Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about the inner workings of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Paul and the Bluesky team have been working on decentralized systems for years and years--very cool to see both the next evolutionary step in those ideas and their successful application in Bluesky! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included our special guest, Paul Frazee, and slightly-less-special guest, Steve Klabnik.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Scuttlebutt
Bluesky Firehose
Bluesky Jetstream
Bluesky and the AT Protocol
Bluesky Feed: Quiet Posters
Bluesky's bot invasion: AI accounts argue with everything you post
AI Imagery labeler
atproto
Oxide starter pack
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Conferences in Tech
14 december 2024 · 1 uur 30 min
Bryan and Adam were joined by Theo Schlossnagle, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, and Steve O'Grady to talk about conferences in tech. A lot has changed in the past couple of decades about the impetus for conferences and what makes it worthwhile to attend. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Theo Schlossnagle, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, and Steve O'Grady.
The lightly edited live chat from the show:
ellie.idb: 2005, huh? y’all met when i was 2
goodjanet: yea i was younger than 10 lol
jgrillo_: I was just thinking I feel very young because I was a junior in high school but not anymore lol
aka_pugs: my first conference - 1975
ellie.idb: oxide appeals to the youth
jbk1234: my first one was LISA in 05 or 06... mostly because it took a near act of god because my director didn't believe in sending his people to conferences
jgrillo_: "before software ate the world" is what I usually call "when the internet was still fun"
ellie.idb: my earliest memory was, uhhh, Google I/O 2008 when they gave every attendee that android phone
ellie.idb: i don’t recall which one it was, but i do remember playing with it when i was 5 hahahaha
taitomagatsu: I've only been to one tech conference in person, and it was a very tame SIGGRAPH that happened in Santiago, CL (I live in Chile). It was a lot about animation. I wanted it to have talks on image processing like the ones over on the US x3 but oh well, beggars can't be choosers
goodjanet: I've never been to a tech conference
devdsp2175: The Germans know how to run a conference. The chaos communications congress is wild.
ellie.idb: same!! never actually attended one as an adult hahaha
taitomagatsu: Have you attended one remotely?
goodjanet: nope, closest is just watching recorded talks after the fact
taitomagatsu: I attended the rustconf of 2 years ago remotely. It was amazing and I was soooo tired by the end of it. Brain got depleted of juice for the day
network2501: looking forward to in person dtrace confe…
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Intel after Gelsinger
5 december 2024 · 1 uur 51 min
Holy Sh**! Pat Gelsinger announced his "retirement" leaving a rudderless Intel without a captain. How did Intel get here? Some of the cultural problems may be deep in the DNA. Bryan and Adam have some ideas for what happens next, and who might be the next CEO. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Ian Grunert.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Intel announces the retirement of Pat Gelsinger
Andy Jassy/Pat Gelsinger re:Invent 2018 premises/premise supercut
Acquired: Adapting Episode 3: Intel
CHM: Pat Gelsinger Oral History
Wins Above Replacement (WAR)
Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove
Larrabee
Cannon Lake
OxF: RIP Optane
Xsight's X2
Nervana
Intel Gaudi
Spring Hill
Invest Like the Best: Redefining Semi-conductor Progress
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Technical Blogging
21 november 2024 · 1 uur 40 min
Bryan and Adam were joined by authors of the forthcoming book "Writing for Developers", Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop, to talk about blogging--for Bryan and Adam, it's been 20 years since they started blogging at Sun. The Oxide Friends were also joined by Tim Bray and Will Snow who kicked off blogging at Sun. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Tim Bray (BlueSky), Will Snow, Cynthia Dunlop and Piotr Sarna.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Writing for Developers
50% off (!) with code OXIDE50
ongoing by Tim Bray
Tim Bray on blogs.sun.com
Scobleizer
Bryan: Blogging through the decades
Bryan: Remembering Charles Beeler
Adam: APFS in Detail: Conclusions
Beastie Boys Book: Live & Direct
Adam: AWS Outposts by the Numbers: A Far-Too-Deep Dive Into Pricing
Adam: I Love Go; I Hate Go
Adam: I am not a resource
Adam: First Rust Program Pain (So you can avoid it...)
Bryan: Falling in love with Rust
Adam: On Blogging (Briefly)
Bryan: The Power of a Pronoun
Adam: DTrace "Scobleized"
Appendix: Cool Technical Blogs
Crowdsourced by the Oxide Friends:
Nova - in the writer's words, "a JavaScript apologist's exploration of how JavaScript could be good"
The Pragmatic Engineer
TigerBeetle
Faster than Lime - a very humane and deep dive into all sorts of technology, with special focus on tools and infrastructure. Recommended article: I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride
Hillel Wayne - tons of formal methods talk. Also about quality assurance in the world of software, in general.
Reid Atcheson - down the rabbit hole of computational math; this person is a floating point savant.
Computational Complexity Blog - what it says on the tin. It might be the best blog-like resource on computational complexity.
Without boats
Bonus technical articles from chat and beyond:
Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY - Saagar Jha
Ship Shape: How Canva does hand-drawn shape recognition in the browser
Ru…
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Books in the Box IV
1 november 2024 · 1 uur 35 min
The 4th installment of the Oxide and Friends book recommendation series. After a brief(ish) diversion into Crimson Twins, Tomax and Xamot, Bryan and Adam are joined by several Oxide Friends to discuss their favorite recent reads. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Nick Gideo, Josh, Ian Grunert, Tom Lyon, Zander, and Oliver Herman.
Tomax and Xamot
Recommendations:
Into the Raging Sea - Slade
The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner
The Big Score - Malone
CHM: Oral History of Hector Ruiz
AMD Founder Jerry Sanders Rare Interview (video)
Chip War - Miller
CHM: Morris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang (video)
Acquired: TSMC (audio)
Creativity Inc. - Catmull and Wallace
Hardcore Software - Sinofsky
OxF: The Showstopper Show
Exploding the Phone - Lapsley
The Cuckoo's Egg - Stoll
Inside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone Phreaking
The Last Bookstore
The MouseDriver Chronicles - Lusk, Harrison
Hatching Twitter - Bilton
Character Limit - Conger, Mac
The Maniac - Labatut
Shift Happens - Wichary
The Last Philosopher in Texas - Chacon
The Idea Factory - Gertner
Observability Engineering - Majors, Fong-Jones, Miranda
Red Cloud at Dawn - Gordin
Biohazard - Alibek
More Money than God - Mallaby
Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War - Carlson
IBM and the Holocaust - Black
Bryan's blog on the topic
DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC - Schein, DeLisi, Kampas, Sonduck
OxF: The Rise and Fall of DEC
Bonus recommendations from chat
Not the End of the World - Ritchie
The Man Who Broke Capitalism - Gelles
Children of Time (series) - Tchaikovsky
The Murderbot Diaries (series) - Wells
Organizational Behavior Real Research for Real Managers - Pearce
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation - Erickson
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power Hardcover - Ryback
Successful Aging - Levitin (felt like maybe a dig at Adam and Bryan?)
Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How It Challenged Microsoft - Quittner, …
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Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino)
16 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 54 min
George Cozma of Chips and Cheese joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about AMD's new 5th generation EPYC processor, codename: Turin. What's new in Turin and how is Oxide's Turin-based platform coming along? Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest George Cozma, as well as Oxide colleagues Robert Mustacchi, Eric Aasen, Nathanael Huffman, and the quietly observant Aaron Hartwig.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Chips and Cheese: AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched
End of the Road: An Anandtech Farewell
Centaur Technology
AVX-512
Zen5's AVX512 Teardown + More...
Thermal Power Design (TDP)
OxF: Rack Scale Networking (use of p4)
P4
AGESA
OxF: The Network Behind the Network (Oxide server recovery)
openSIL
phoronix: openSIL
PCB backdrilling
OxF: AMD's MI300 (APUs)
dtrace.conf(24) -- The DTrace unconference, December 11th, 2024
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Querying Metrics with OxQL
2 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 35 min
Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleague, Ben Naecker, to talk about OxQL--the Oxide Query Language we've developed for interacting with our metrics system. Yes, another query language, and, yes, we're DSL maximalists, but listen in before you accuse us of simple NIH! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Oxide colleague, Ben Naecker.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
RFD 463: The Oxide Query Language
GenAI podcast on the OxQL RFD
RFD 125: Telemetry requirements and building blocks
InfluxDB
ClickHouse
Simon Willison: SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL
Oxide CLI timeseries docs
Oxide CLI timeseries dashboard code
OxQL source code
Rust peg crate
Gorilla
Clickhouse paper
OxF: Whither CockroachDB?
ANTLR
ACM Queue 2009: Purpose Built Languages
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RTO or GTFO
26 september 2024 · 1 uur 40 min
With Amazon's return to office (RTO) mandate in the news, Bryan and Adam revisit the topic (it's been 2.5 years since last time!). Are in-office epiphanies real or is RTO fueled by nostalgia, fear... and finance? Stay tuned / we apologize for the exposition on in-office games. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included friend of the pod, Matt Amdur, and Chris.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Strengthening our culture and teams
OxF: The Future of Work
Amazon leadership principles
Nathanael's blog: Building Big Systems with Remote Hardware Teams
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Reflecting on Founder Mode
20 september 2024 · 1 uur 22 min
With some time passed, Bryan and Adam offer a non-hot take on Paul Graham's "Founder Mode" post. While there is plenty to quibble over, there's also the kernel of an important idea: how to balance experience, novel thinking, and limited time? Also stay tuned as they share a years old "ego con". Lees meer
Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Paul Graham Founder Mode
Bryan Reflecting on Founder Mode
Tim O'Reilly How I Failed
Camille Fournier Founder Create Managers
Bryan Chesky interview we mention
OxF: on Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing
Seagull Management
How to Castrate a Bull NOT AN ENDORSEMENT; DO NOT READ
The ego con: Non-Stop Hitz
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RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide
30 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 42 min
RFDs--Requests for Discussion--are how we at Oxide discuss... just about everything! Technical design, hardware component selection, changes in process, culture, interview systems, (even) chat--we have RFDs for all of these, over 500 in a bit under 5 years. Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleagues instrumental to RFDs, from their most prolific author to those making them more consumable. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Robert Mustacchi, David Crespo, Ben Leonard, and Augustus Mayo.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
We're sorry, Germany
Oxide RFD site
RFD 1: Requests for Discussion
A Tool for Discussion (Oxide blog post from Ben)
Sun PSARC cases
The Queen's Duck
The Hairy Arm
Joyent RFDs
RFC-3
AsciiDoc
Joyent RFD 77
OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz
Oxide RFD API
... with it's CLI generated by progenitor
... which we talked about some on OxF here and here
"Own your strategic weirdness"
RFD 113: Engineering Determination, or how we close out RFDs
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Whither CockroachDB?
21 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 34 min
Lots of engineering decisions get made on vibes. Popularity, anecdotes—they can lead to expedient decisions rather than rigorous ones. At Oxide, our choice to go with CockroachDB was hardly hasty! Dave Pacheco joins Bryan and Adam to talk about why we choose CRDB… and how Cockroach Lab’s recent switch to a proprietary license impacts that. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Dave Pacheco.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
TechCrunch: Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay
Kelsey's Tweet
Oxide RFD 53: Control plane data storage requirements
Oxide RFD 110: CockroachDB for the control plane database
Oxide RFD 508: Whither CockroachDB
Joyent blog post on the outage due to postgres autovacuum
Jepsen
Dave's CRDB exploration repo
Chrony
OxF: A Debugging Odyssey -- debugging an issue that manifested in CRDB
The Liberation of RethinkDB
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The Saga of Sagas
14 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 58 min
The Oxide control plane coordinates multiple services to do complex, compound operations. Early on, we knew we wanted to provide a robust structure for these multi-part workflows. We stumbled onto Distributed Sagas and built our own implementation in Steno. Bryan and Adam are joined by several members of the Oxide team who built and use Steno to drive the complex operation of the control plane. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Dave Pacheco. Eliza Weisman, Andrew Stone, Greg Colombo, and James MacMahon.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Distributed Sagas: A Protocol for Coordinating Microservices - Caitie McCaffrey
Oxide RFD 107: Workflows Engine
Steno
chat: "the trouble with other people's workflow engines, somehow with all the yaml in the world they're never quite extensible enough"
Not our first bit of background noise on OxF (trombone)
SAGAS paper
chat: "when i hear sagas i think "transaction semantics enforced at the application layer" and when i hear workflow i hear "a dsl that doesn't have a for loop""
Automated saga testing
Oxide RFD 289: Steno Upgrade
Feral Concurrency Control paper from Berkeley and the University of Sydney
Eliza's PR
Steno's description of its divergence from Distributed Sagas
AWS "constant work" blog
chat: "Now, migrate the owl."
OxF on formal methods
A complex bug with sagas: "tl;dr there's TWENTY steps in 5042 that leads to an accounting bug"
Oxide RFD 373: Reliable Persistent Workflows
Eliza's novella on updating an instance
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Pragmatic LLM usage with Nicholas Carlini
9 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 33 min
Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his terrific blog post on his many pragmatic uses of LLMs to solve real problems. He has great advice about when to use them (often!) and what kinds of problems they handle well. LLMs aren't great at many things, but used well they can be an amazing tool. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Nicholas Carlini as well as by listeners Mike Cafarella, p5commit, and chrisbur.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Nicholas' blog: How I Use "AI"
The McLaughlin Group
Surge 2011 ~ Closing Plenary ~ Theo Schlossnagle
Microsoft's Tay chatbot
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Larry vs. Siri
Sal Khan on LLMs
Google's awful AI ad
Google pulls ad
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CrowdStrike BSOD Fiasco with Katie Moussouris
25 juli 2024 · 1 uur 42 min
Bryan and Adam were joined by security expert, Katie Moussouris, to discuss the largest global IT outage in history. It was an event as broadly impactful as it will be instructive; as Bryan noted, you can see all of computing from here, from crash dumps to antitrust. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Katie Moussouris.
PRs needed!
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Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri
18 juli 2024 · 1 uur 54 min
Raja Koduri joined Bryan and Adam to answer a question sent in from a listener: what's are the differences between a CPU, GPU, FPGA, and ASIC? And after a walk through history of hardware, software, their intersection and relevant companies, we ... almost answered it! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Raja Koduri.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell
3dfx
OpenGL
Glide
Direct3D
CUDA
Dennard scaling
VLIW
GPGPU
AMD APU
Energy Efficiency and AI Hardware
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Innovation Tokens with Charity Majors
11 juli 2024 · 1 uur 26 min
Charity Majors joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about the idea of "innovation tokens"--a fixed budget for, so called, "innovative" projects. When is boring better and when is innovation the safer approach? Is Oxide issuing innovation tokens in some sort of hyper-inflationary cycle!? Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Charity Majors.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Glyph: Against Innovation Tokens
Charity's Twitter Thread
OxF: Let That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?) with Charity
Druid
Scuba whitepaper
Oxide RFD 68: Partnership as Shared Values
Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
Dropshot and Progenitor
OxF: The Pragmatism of Hubris
OxF: Helios
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Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble?
27 juni 2024 · 1 uur 29 min
Every so often we like to give our Oxide and Friends hot takes (or as Adam puts it "Bryan getting trolled on Twitter"). This time, a viral tweet suggests that NVIDIA is on the same trajectory as Sun Microsystems on its ascent during the Dot Com Bubble. From two alumni of Sun's rise and fall: maaaaybe not. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Todd Gamblin.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
The Tweet!
OxF: Innovation Stagnation? -- wherein we forgot to read the tweet
Framework laptop RISC-V mainboard
Tadpole SPARCbook
OxF: A Requiem for SPARC with Tom Lyon -- we're RISC dead-enders
Acquired on NVIDIA: part I, part II, part III, Jensen
RIVA 128
OxF: Steve Jobs & the Next Big Thing
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Musing with Changelog's Adam Stacoviak
17 juni 2024 · 1 uur 47 min
Bryan and Adam were joined by The Changelog’s Adam Stacoviak for a … wide ranging conversation! Something for everyone—especially fans of HBO’s Silicon Valley! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Adam Stacoviak.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Bryan on ChangelogChangelog: 23 years of Ruby with Matz
SWOT
Bachmanity Insanity
Straight outta Kubecon
Breakmaster Cylinder
Adam Stac on github
Changelog Dance Party by BMC
Computer History Museum: Oral Histories
Bryan's talk on social audio
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Rebooting a datacenter: A decade later
30 mei 2024 · 1 uur 41 min
Back in May 2014 Joyent accidentally rebooted an entire datacenter (not just the handful of nodes as intended!). That incident--traumatic was it was--informed many aspects of the Oxide product. Bryan and Adam were joined by members of that former Joyent team to discuss, commiserate, and--perhaps--get some things off their chests. Lees meer
a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Josh Clulow, Brian Bennett, Robert Mustacchi, and Steve Tuck.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
The Register: Fat-fingered admin downs entire Joyent data center
Bryan's talk: Debugging Under Fire
Oxide and Friends on the Oakland Ballers
The Ur Agent
Joyent post-mortem
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Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball
22 mei 2024 · 1 uur 51 min
The long-awaited Oxide and Friends bookclub! Bryan and Adam were joined by special guest--and real life biologist--Greg Cost to discuss Philip Ball's terrific book, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology. Spoiler: Alan Turing makes a very expected appearance! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Greg Cost.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
The Turing pattern
RNA as a precursor to DNA
Xenopus frog
Xenobots
Anton computer
Bryan's reading notes
Central themes
Power and limitations of metaphor – especially mechanical ones
The fundamental, diametrical opposition between life and machines. (Nature does not use simulations!)
Rejecting the neo-Darwinian paradigm
Passages of note:
p. 91: “of the common SNPs seen in human populations, fully 62 percent are associated with height” … “the most common genomic associations for complex traits like this are in the noncoding regions” What is cognition? p. 137: “Life is, as biologist Michael Levin Jeremy Gunawardenaand philosopher Daniel Dennet have argued, ‘cognition all the way down’” AlphaFold2 p. 148 “AlphaFold does not so much solve the infamously difficult protein-folding problem as sidestep it. The algorithm makes no predictions about how a polypeptide chain folds, but simply predicts the end result based on the sequence.”
p. 156: allostery refers to how a
🤯 p. 160: “The popular view that science is the process of studying what the world is like needs to be given an important qualification: science tends to be the study of what we can study.”
p. 166: “The misfolding pathology of PrPs (prion proteins) is the price paid for the benefits of disorder. … Disordered proteins can increase the complexity and versatility of our regulatory networks, but at the cost of increased risk of toxic aggregates formed from misfolded proteins.”
p. 181: “The [training] analogy is far from perfect, not least because proteins don’t need to be ‘traine…
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All we have to fear is FUD itself
25 april 2024 · 1 uur 21 min
The Oxide Friends have talked about the Hashicorp license change, the emergence of an open source fork of Terraform in OpenTofu, and other topics in open source. A few weeks ago both InfoWorld and Hashicorp (independently?) accused OpenTofu of stealing Terraform code—a serious claim that turned out to be fully unfounded. We (you!) have been lucky to avoid this topic with a couple of guests lined up to talk about the xz exploit discovery and founding the Oakland Ballers… but we ran out of distractions! Bryan and Adam talk about this FUD and FUD generally. Lees meer
Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Infoworld: OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork
OpenTofu response
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A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel
17 april 2024 · 1 uur 13 min
Bryan, Adam, Steve, and the Oxide Friends are joined by the founders of the Oakland Ballers, the continuation of a long history of baseball in Oakland. There turns out to be a plenty in common between founding a computer company and founding a baseball team--and we both have our fans supporting us! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by very special guests Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel as well our somewhat-special boss, Steve Tuck.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
The Oakland Ballers
Bryan and Adam at Manaea's no-no
The Munson-Nixon line
The Pioneer League
Baseball's longest game
Adam's neighbor, Bill George, scorer of the longest game
Yolo Highwheelers
BART's sponsorship of the Ballers
J.T. Snow joins the Ballers
J.T. saves Dusty's son
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Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund
10 april 2024 · 1 uur 37 min
Andres Freund joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his discovery of the xz backdoor. It’s an incredible story… so great to get into the details with Andres. We started by ranting about the coverage in the New York Times… coverage that explicitly refused to dig into the details! It’s all the more shocking because the big story here is how Andres’ penchant for digging into the details is what saved us all from what would have been a pervasive and damaging attack! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Andres Freund.
Our research for this episode:
Andres' initial public disclosure
New York Times: Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? by Kevin Roose
Kevin Roose
New York Times front page from April 4th, 2024
How I got started as a developer with Andres Freund & Heikki Linnakangas | Path To Citus Con Ep08
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind | WIRED
How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide - The Verge
Linux backdoor was a long con, possibly with nation-state support, experts say - Nextgov/FCW
research!rsc: Timeline of the xz open source attack
Brian Krebs thread on mastodon
Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Risky Business #743 -- A chat about the xz backdoor with the guy who found it (podcast)
Risky Biz News: F-Droid narrowly avoided XZ-like incident in 2020 (podcast)
What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world | Ars Technica
Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
LINUX Unplugged 556: The xz Backdoor Exposed 🚨 (podcast)
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Recorded April 8th, 2024
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Cultural Idiosyncrasies
3 april 2024 · 1 uur 27 min
The Oxide Friends talk about about cultural idiosyncrasies--turns out we have a lot of them at Oxide! Some might even sound good enough for you to try out! Demo Fridays, morning water-cooler, no-meet Wednesdays, recorded meetings, dog-pile debugging (aka CSPAN for debugging), RFDs (requests for discussion), no performance review process... Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague Steve Klabnik.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Bryan: Engineering a culture
Matt: It's Free Real Estate
Cliff: Who killed the network switch?
OxF: Engineering Culture
Demo Day
Jujutsu
Covid as a catalyst for remote-friendly features
Watercooler morning meeting
No-meet Wednesday
OtM: Jeff Rothschild
No (formalized) review process
The non-zero-sum value of praise
Positive Coaching Alliance
Chat as the apple of discord (and remember email?! Or jabber??!!)
DORA
Oxide RFDs
RFD 68: Partnership as Shared Values
Matthew Sanabria: Observability Companies to Watch in 2024
"Chat"
"Rock and stone"
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Adversarial Machine Learning
27 maart 2024 · 1 uur 24 min
Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about his work with adversarial machine learning. He's found sequences of--seemingly random--tokens that cause LLMs to ignore their restrictions! Also: printf is Turing complete?! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Nicholas Carlini.
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Data Visualization
15 maart 2024 · 1 uur 26 min
Data visualization is an important--and overlooked!--tool in the software engineer's tool belt. Bryan describes a recent journey with gnuplot while Oxide colleague, Charlie Park, shares his own experience with data visualization and Adam offers a visual analysis of Simpsons episodes. Stay tuned to the end to find out about the Oxide and Friends book club coming up in May. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide Colleague, Charlie Park.
(00:00) - Intro
(13:39) - OODA
(22:30) - Back to Bryan
(24:27) - Flame Graphs
(28:58) - Statemap
(32:39) - Minard / Tufte
(44:53) - thingskatedid
(46:39) - DTrace aggregations
(56:06) - ParaView
(01:03:08) - Simpsons IMDb
(01:05:16) - Survivorship Bias
(01:15:03) - Kartlytics
(01:18:15) - Kartlytics sample group
(01:19:11) - Wrapping up
(01:22:02) - OxF book club
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Bryan's rad gnuplot
GitHub PR with Bryan's visualizations
Tufte
Pronunciation of "Tufte" is /ˈtʌfti/
Flame Graphs
flamegraph-rs
OODA
This American Life: A Little Bit of Knowledge
Statemaps
Minard's diagram
https://twitter.com/thingskatedid/status/1386077306381242371
plot.awk
Visualizing regular expressions and BNF grammars with Graphviz
Example implementations of isvg and idot
DTrace aggregations
Rust crate ratatui
Programs and libraries for plotting and other data visualizations:
gnuplot
Matplotlib
ggplot2
ParaView
GLVis
Simpsons IMDB visualization
Abraham Wald and the airplane diagram with red bullet holes – here’s the origin story
Kartlytics
How Life Works by Philip Ball
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Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service
14 februari 2024 · 1 uur 39 min
Bryan and Adam are joined by members of the Oxide storage team--Josh, Alan, James, and Matt--to talk about Crucible, the service that provides block storage for VM instances running in the Oxide Rack. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues Josh Clulow, Alan Hanson, James MacMahon, and Matt Keeter.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Hyper-converged infrastructure
Fibre Channel
ZFS
Introduction to Flexible Data Placement: A New Era of Optimized Data Management
Storage Architecture Considerations
Ceph
RFD 60: Storage Architecture Considerations
RFD 177: Implementation of Data Storage
RFD 444: Crucible Upstairs Refactoring
RFD 445: Crucible Upstairs Backpressure
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Innovation Stagnation?
7 februari 2024 · 1 uur 1 min
Sometimes Bryan gets trolled by a tweet and brings it to Adam and the Oxide Friends. This was a well-crafted troll: is innovation slowing? Are the most interesting problems solved. In a word: no. For many more words, listen in! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Steve Klabnik.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
The Tweet
Nate Silver
Secularity
Secular stagnation
Angela Collier: physics progress in the last 70 years?
Haber process
CRISPR gene editing
Book: Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
Leonhard Euler
Dijkstra's algorithm
Raft
Antibiotic
Acquired: TSMC
EUV lithography
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Helios
1 februari 2024 · 1 uur 48 min
Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Josh Clulow, Patrick Mooney, and Steve Klabnik to discuss Helios, the operating system that runs on the Oxide Rack. Helios is a distro of illumos (derived from OpenSolaris, derived from Solaris, etc.). What's a distro? Why did Oxide choose illumos? Plenty of cross-generational appeal in this episode! Lees meer
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
The Helios github repo
Hacker News thread its release
OmniOS
Rust Tier 2 support
Bryan's talk on holistic boot
Oxide and Friends: Holistic Boot
Oxide and Friends: Shipping Rack 1
The Quality Death Spiral
Oxide's "St. Louis" branch of illumos
Bryan's sleeper bug from 1991
illumos books (How's this for some SEO?!)
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What's taking so long?!
24 januari 2024 · 1 uur 35 min
We love Rust at Oxide, but the haters aren’t wrong: builds can be slow. Bryan and Adam are joined by Sean Klein, Rain Paharia, and Steve Klabnik to discuss techniques for analyzing and accelerating Rust builds. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Sean Klein, Rain Paharia, and the illustrious Steve Klabnik.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
go forth and vibe in this minecraft paradise I seeded
Dinosaur book
Roslyn
--timings
Steve's "outlining" example
Rain's cargo-hakari
Rain speeding up Omicron builds
Blog post on many of these topics
Sean's fix to u32 overflow bug
miniserde
mold
David Tolnay on pre-compiled macros in wasm
Buck2
Build Systems à la Carte
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Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison
17 januari 2024 · 1 uur 33 min
Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a recent article maligning open source large language models. Simon has so much practical experience with LLMs, and brings so much clarity to what they can and can’t do. How do these systems work? How do they break? What are open and proprietary LLMs out there? Lees meer
Recorded 1/15/2024
We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Simon Willison.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
IEEE Spectrum: Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous
Newsroom Robots with Simon Willison
OxF: Another LPC55 ROM Vulnerability
Simon Willison: Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023
llama.cpp
Mistral AI
France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAI
Simon again: The AI trust crisis
Reply All: Is Facebook Spying on You?
Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models
New York Times Sues OpenAI
Lycos
ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why
Simon posted a follow up blog article where he explains using MacWhisper and Claude to make his LLM pull out a few of his favorite quotes from this episode:
Talking about Open Source LLMs on Oxide and Friends
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Predictions 2024!
10 januari 2024 · 1 uur 57 min
Bryan and Adam are joined by MIT Research Scientist, Michael Cafarella, for our annual predictions episode where we check in on past predictions and gaze 1-, 3-, and 6- years into the future. No surprise: there were a lot of AI-related predictions. Big surprise: many of them came from Bryan … and with unabashed optimism! Lees meer
Recorded 1/8/2024
Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal were your hosts. Additional speakers--and predicters--are listed below with their predictions. (If you made predictions, please submit a PR to add or clarify yours)
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AMD's MI300 and the Future of Accelerated Compute
12 december 2023 · 1 uur 14 min
George Cozma from Chips and Cheese and Jordan Ranous from Storage Review joined Adam, Bryan, and the Oxide Friends to discuss AMD’s recent MI300 announcement and the implications to accelerated to compute. The MI300A particularly caught our eye--CPU and GPU chiplets on in the same package! Bryan pronounced ML "the biggest thing since the spreadsheet!"... we'll see! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included George Cozma, Jordan Ranous, and :Josh Clulow.
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Framework Computer with Nirav Patel
5 december 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
Nirav Patel, CEO and founder of Framework Computer, join Bryan and Adam to talk about building a new computer company (yes! another new computer company!) focused on making laptops repairable and open. It turns out, there are a bunch of shared lessons between building a 3lb laptop and a 2,500lb cloud computer! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Nirav Patel, founder and CEO of Framework Computer.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Framework
r/spicypillows
Framework expansion cards
Framework-based gaming console from the community
Optima Braille laptop
Oxide and Friends: A brief history of talking computers
Acer Ferrari 3400 c. 2004 -- 6.6lb favorite of Solaris Kernel engineers
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OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl
28 november 2023 · 1 uur 10 min
So… OpenAI happened… and Bryan and Adam try it break it down with help from Steve Tuck and even more special guest Chuck McManis. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by variously special guests Steve Tuck and Chuck McManis.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Hacker News: OpenAPI's board has fired Sam Altman
Employee Letter to OpenAI's Board
Who Controls OpenAI? by Matt Levine, the G.O.A.T.
Axios: Who is Larry Summers, the controversial pick to join OpenAI's board
Mike Olsen: What is a Board of Directors For?
Fermat's Last Theorem (an + bn = cn only possible for n = 1 or n = 2)
> I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain. - FermatHomer vs. Fermat
IBM and the Holocaust
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Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz
7 november 2023 · 1 uur 45 min
Bryan and Adam were joined by Gergely Orosz, the Pragmatic Engineer, to talk about Oxide's hiring process, the experiences that led to that process, and hiring generally. There's a lot there for anyone interested in hiring or being hired... and especially for anyone who's considered applying to Oxide! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Gergely Orosz.
The "Litter Box" is what we call the recording studio... thus named for reasons best left to the imaginationOxide Hiring Process
The Pragmatic Engineer
Oxide and Friends: Tech Layoffs (Nov. 8, 2022)
The Oxide RFD process
The Psychopath Test
Oxide Principles and Values
Adam's detente with the American Hockey League
Leventhal's conundrum - there is a performance pathology, find the butterfly that caused the hurricane.
Compensation as a Reflection of Values
Light's Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of GE
Gergely's new book The Software Engineer's Guidebook
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Launching the Cloud Computer
31 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 34 min
Oxide Founder and CEO, Steve Tuck, joined Bryan, Adam, and Oxide Friend, Steve Klabnik, to talk about our recent announcements: general availability of the Oxide Cloud Computer, and raising $44m. The reception was (broadly) great! Bryan and Steve answered questions about the product, company, and launch. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Steve Tuck and Steve Klabnik.
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Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob
24 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 40 min
Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob joined Adam and Bryan to continue their panel discussion with Bryan following up his p99conf talk revisiting open source anti-patterns. Notably, open source has accelerated the distribution of value… without clarity on how contributors can capture that value. Has open source accelerated unequal distribution? Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by friends of the show Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Bryan's Talk, Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns: A Decade Later by Bryan Cantrill, Oxide
Subsequent panel with Adam J. and Ashley
Oxide and Friends: Open Source Anti-Patterns with Kelsey Hightower from August 28th, 2023
Oxide and Friends: Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph from September 13th, 2021
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Settling Beef
17 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 39 min
Recently, a clip from Oxide and Friends was played by another podcast as something of a punching bag. Adam was called "uneducated" and Bryan, it was observed accurately, "hadn't used C++ since the '90s". Well, Conor Hoekstra from the ADSP pod joined us to settle the beef. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Conor Hoekstra and Oxide colleague Cliff Biffle.
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Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride
3 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 31 min
Adam and the Oxide Friends follow Bryan on Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride as he investigates performance anomalies. Bryan used all manner of tool from gnuplot to DTrace-inspired bpftrace! If you have ever or plan to ever care about the latency of network-borne protocols, you won't want to miss this! Lees meer
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In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Tom Lyon, James Tucker, Eliza Weisman, and Dan Ports.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Latency Art: X marks the spot
Latency Art: Rainbow Pterodactyl
Nagle on Nagle
Dan's tweet on Nagle
Eliza's tweet on Nagle
TCP_NODELAY or TCP? No, delay!
Dr. Angela Collier on violin plots
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DTrace at 20
12 september 2023 · 2 uur 4 min
Bryan and Adam reminisce about the DTrace journey 20 years after first integrating the code into Solaris back in September 2003. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Josh Clulow.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Hungry Jack's
Bryan's other online dating profile
The Sun E10000 (E10k), the world's worst router
Leventhal's Conundrum
DTrace as Half-Life 3, eternal vaporware
More on SPARC, its TLB, the %npc, and dtrace_fish from OxF May 2021
Solaris 9 was the completion of the Solaris 2.0 vision
DTrace Kernel Technical Discussion (2002)
Mr. Sparkle
Firefox? Mozilla? Firebird!
Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems, Usenix 2004
Graydon on DTrace in Rust
Rust USDT crate
DTrace on Windows
Adam's blog: DTrace on macOS
Adam's blog: DTrace for OEL
PSARC cases from 2003
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