Oxide and Friends

Greg and Rain from the Oxide team joined Bryan and Adam to talk about powerful methods of verifying software: formal methods in the form of TLA+ and property-based testing in the form of the proptest Rust crate. If you care about making software right, don't miss it! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , we were joined by Oxide colleagues Greg Colombo and Rain Paharia . Some of the to...

Jordan Hendricks joined Bryan and Adam to talk about her work virtualizing time--particularly challenging when migrating virtual machines from one physical machine to another! We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from June 12th, 2023 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , we were joined by Oxide collea...

Bryan and Adam are joined by Ashley Williams to talk about open source governance... and the recently, and various stumblings of the Rust project leadership.

Bryan and Adam are joined by Jonathan and Jignesh from Samtec to discuss working together to build the Oxide Rack. We've all seen bad vendors--what does it mean to be a great partner? Also: silicon photonics are (still!) just 18 months away!

Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Arjen, Matt, John, and Nathaneal to talk about the management network--the brainstem of the Oxide Rack. Just as it ties together so many components, this episode ties together many many (many!) topics we've discussed in other episodes. We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recordin...

Erin Kissane joins Bryan and Adam to talk the new social network "Bluesky" through the lens of her blog post "Blue Skies Over Mastodon". Long-time friends of Oxide and social-media aficionados Time Bray and Steve Klabnik also helped shed light on technical and social aspects of the net network. Blue Skies Over Mastodon (with Erin Kissane and Tim Bray) We've been hosting a live show weekly on Monda...

The Rust Foundation caused a fracas with their proposed new trademark rules. Bryan and Adam were lucky enough to be joined by Ashley Williams, Adam Jacob, and Steve Klabnik for an insightful discussion of open source governance and communities--in particular as applied to Rust. Rust Trademark: Argle-bargle or Foofaraw? We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and r...

Bryan and Adam are joined by Doug Wibben and Robert Keith to talk about the mechanical design of the cabled backplane of the Oxide rack that allows for "blind-mated" server sleds--no network and power cables to plug, unplug, and mis-plug! Watch the chapter art for relevant pictures. We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the record...

Andrew Stone of Oxide Engineering joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about his purpose-built, replay debugger for the Oxide setup textual UI. Andrew borrowed a technique from his extensive work with distributed systems to built a UI that was well-structured... and highly amenable to debuggability. He built a custom debugger "in a weekend"! Some of the topics we hit on, in the order...

Bryan and Adam and the Oxide Friends take on GPT and its implications for software engineering. Many aspiring programmers are concerned that the future of the profession is in jeopardy. Spoiler: the Oxide Friends see a bright future for human/GPT collaboration in software engineering. We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the reco...

Eric Vishria of Benchmark and Oxide CEO, Steve Tuck, join Bryan and Adam to talk about Silicon Valley Bank, its role in the startup ecosystem, and the short- and long-term effects of its collapse. We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from March 17th, 2023 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , we were...

Bryan and Adam are joined by a number of members of the Oxide networking team to talk about the networking software that drives the Oxide rack. It turns out that rack-scale networking is hard... and has enormous benefits! We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from February 27th, 2023 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill a...

Yael Grauer joined Bryan, Adam, Steve Klabnik, and the Oxide Friends to talk about her recent Consumer Reports article on memory safety and memory safe languages. How do we inform the general public? How do we persuade practitioners and companies? Thanks for joining us, Yael! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , we were joined by special guest Yael Grauer , and Steve Klabnik . Some o...

Members of the Oxide team join Bryan and Adam to talk about our journey through compliance (spoiler: we passed!).  Oxide and Friends: February 6th, 2023  We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from February 6th, 2023 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers on February 6th included Arjen Roodselaa...

Oxide and Friends: January 23rd, 2023 Revisiting Unikernels We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from January 23rd, 2023 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers on January 23rd included Steve Klabnik , Dan Cross , and others. Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Bryan's...

We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from January 16th, 2023 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , we were joined by Nathanael Huffman , Cliff Biffle , Rick Altherr , Matt Keeter , Eric Aasen , and Dan Cross . Check out the show notes on github to browse the images. (00:00) - Intro (11:42) - Gemini (1...

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Break it down with Ian Brown We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from December 26th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Ian Brown .

A Debugging Odyssey We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from December 19th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Dave Pacheco . 

Oxide and Friends: December 12th, 2022 Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from December 12th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers on MM DD included XXX , and YY . (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!) Podcasts mentioned on the show Ziade&...

Oxide and Friends: November 28th, 2022 Leaving Twitter with Tim Bray We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from November 28th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Tim Bray . Other speakers on November 28th included Adam Jacob , Toasterson , and raggi . (Did we miss your nam...

We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for November 14th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Kris Nova . Other speakers on November 14th included XXX , and YY . (Did we miss your nam...

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 7th, 2022 Tech Layoffs We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for November 7th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers on November 7th included XXX , and YY...

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 31st, 2022 Open Source Firmware We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for October 31st, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guests were Christian Walke...

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 27th, 2022 Let That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?) We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for October 27th, 2022 . In this special, breaking news edition of Oxide and Friends, Bryan Cantril...