Oxide and Friends

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:00:00 -0700

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Two years ago, the Oxide team encountered data corruption during a fairly simple network data transf...

Fri, 27 Jun

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What happens when the Oxide API is slow? A podcast episode! More specifically, one about how the tea...

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:00:00 -0700

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On the heels of Bryan's blog post about the similarities between aspiring college athletes finding a...

Mon, 16 Jun

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Building systems software can be quite opaque, leading to the need for great debugging tools. At Oxi...

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:00:00 -0700

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Last week, our colleague (and frequent Oxide and Friends guest) Steve Klabnik made some new friends ...

Sat, 24 May

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Late in 2024, an economics paper captured the attention of the world. AI, it claimed, had a tremendo...

Thu, 15 May 2025 07:00:00 -0700

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Bryan and Adam discuss the recent announcement of the discontinuation of the USENIX Annual Technical...

Wed, 07 May

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Matthew Sanabria joins Bryan and Adam to talk about his role at Oxide--Solutions Software Engineer--...

Thu, 01 May 2025 07:00:00 -0700

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Last week the kerfuffle between Synadia and CNCF, tussling over the ownership and futures of NATS, b...

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 07:00:00 -0700

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Oxide is bringing up its next generation server. To discuss the (amazingly smooth) bringup process, ...

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:00:00 -0700

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Bryan and Adam have been gushing for months over Character Limit, the fantastic book by Kate Conger ...

Fri, 04 Apr

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An Oxide customer encountered a peculiar issue at the intersection of their Oxide network and their ...

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:00:00 -0700

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Much of the work at Oxide goes into hardware and software used to build and test the eventual produc...

Fri, 21 Mar

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Intel has a new CEO! And it's Lip-Bu Tan. We had assumed it would not be Lip-Bu--he was such a clear...

Sat, 15 Mar

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Recently, a change to a utility in the Rust toolchain changed behavior in a way that impacted users....

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:00:00 -0800

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Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleagues Andrew, Rain, and John to talk about creating a gener...

Fri, 28 Feb

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The value of transparency in engineering can have huge benefits--nothing can compare to the momentum...

Mon, 24 Feb

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Randy Shoup joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to look at the history of Silicon Valley throu...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:00:00 -0800

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Ratatui is a Rust framework for building rich--and incredible--UIs in the terminal. Bryan and Adam w...

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:00:00 -0800

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DeepSeek was a disruptive surprise at the start of 2025--an open weights model trained at a fraction...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:00:00 -0800

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In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Robert Mustacch...

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 07:00:00 -0800

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Love Rust? Us too. One of its great strengths is its ecosystem of crates. Rain, Eliza, and Steve fro...

Fri, 10 Jan

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The annual predictions tradition returns for 2025! Bryan and Adam were joined by Simon Willison, Mik...

Mon, 30 Dec

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Bryan and Adam look back on the year of Oxide and Friends episodes, reflecting on favorite shows, mo...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:00:00 -0800

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Paul Frazee joins Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about the inner workings of Bluesky and...

Sat, 14 Dec

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Bryan and Adam were joined by Theo Schlossnagle, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, and Steve O'Grady to talk abo...

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 07:00:00 -0800

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Holy Sh**! Pat Gelsinger announced his "retirement" leaving a rudderless Intel without a captain. Ho...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:00:00 -0800

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Bryan and Adam were joined by authors of the forthcoming book "Writing for Developers", Piotr Sarna ...

Fri, 01 Nov

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The 4th installment of the Oxide and Friends book recommendation series. After a brief(ish) diversio...

Wed, 16 Oct

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George Cozma of Chips and Cheese joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about AMD's new 5...

Wed, 02 Oct

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Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleague, Ben Naecker, to talk about OxQL--the Oxide Query Lang...

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:00:00 -0700

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With Amazon's return to office (RTO) mandate in the news, Bryan and Adam revisit the topic (it's bee...

Fri, 20 Sep

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With some time passed, Bryan and Adam offer a non-hot take on Paul Graham's "Founder Mode" post. Whi...

Fri, 30 Aug

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RFDs--Requests for Discussion--are how we at Oxide discuss... just about everything! Technical desig...

Wed, 21 Aug

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Lots of engineering decisions get made on vibes. Popularity, anecdotes—they can lead to expedient ...

Wed, 14 Aug

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The Oxide control plane coordinates multiple services to do complex, compound operations. Early on, ...

Fri, 09 Aug

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Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his terrific blog post on his many pragmatic us...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:00:00 -0700

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Bryan and Adam were joined by security expert, Katie Moussouris, to discuss the largest global IT ou...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:00:00 -0700

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Raja Koduri joined Bryan and Adam to answer a question sent in from a listener: what's are the diffe...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:00:00 -0700

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Charity Majors joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about the idea of "innovation token...

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 07:00:00 -0700

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Every so often we like to give our Oxide and Friends hot takes (or as Adam puts it "Bryan getting tr...

Mon, 17 Jun

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Bryan and Adam were joined by The Changelog’s Adam Stacoviak for a … wide ranging conversation! ...

Thu, 30 May 2024 07:00:00 -0700

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Back in May 2014 Joyent accidentally rebooted an entire datacenter (not just the handful of nodes as...

Wed, 22 May

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The long-awaited Oxide and Friends bookclub! Bryan and Adam were joined by special guest--and real l...

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:08:26 -0700

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The Oxide Friends have talked about the Hashicorp license change, the emergence of an open source fo...

Wed, 17 Apr

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Bryan, Adam, Steve, and the Oxide Friends are joined by the founders of the Oakland Ballers, the con...

Wed, 10 Apr

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Andres Freund joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his discovery of the xz backdoor. It’s an incred...

Wed, 03 Apr

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The Oxide Friends talk about about cultural idiosyncrasies--turns out we have a lot of them at Oxide...

Wed, 27 Mar

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Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about his work with adversarial m...

Fri, 15 Mar

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Data visualization is an important--and overlooked!--tool in the software engineer's tool belt. Brya...

Wed, 14 Feb

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Bryan and Adam are joined by members of the Oxide storage team--Josh, Alan, James, and Matt--to talk...

Wed, 07 Feb

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Sometimes Bryan gets trolled by a tweet and brings it to Adam and the Oxide Friends. This was a well...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 07:45:00 -0800

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Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Josh Clulow, Patrick Mooney, and Steve Klabnik to disc...

Wed, 24 Jan

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We love Rust at Oxide, but the haters aren’t wrong: builds can be slow. Bryan and Adam are joined ...

Wed, 17 Jan

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Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a recent article maligning open source large languag...

Wed, 10 Jan

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Bryan and Adam are joined by MIT Research Scientist, Michael Cafarella, for our annual predictions e...

Mon, 11 Dec

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George Cozma from Chips and Cheese and Jordan Ranous from Storage Review joined Adam, Bryan, and the...

Mon, 04 Dec

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Nirav Patel, CEO and founder of Framework Computer, join Bryan and Adam to talk about building a new...

Mon, 27 Nov

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So… OpenAI happened… and Bryan and Adam try it break it down with help from Steve Tuck and even ...

Mon, 06 Nov

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Bryan and Adam were joined by Gergely Orosz, the Pragmatic Engineer, to talk about Oxide's hiring pr...

Mon, 30 Oct

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Oxide Founder and CEO, Steve Tuck, joined Bryan, Adam, and Oxide Friend, Steve Klabnik, to talk abou...

Mon, 23 Oct

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Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob joined Adam and Bryan to continue their panel discussion with Bryan f...

Mon, 16 Oct

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Recently, a clip from Oxide and Friends was played by another podcast as something of a punching bag...

Mon, 02 Oct

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Adam and the Oxide Friends follow Bryan on Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride as he investigates performance anom...

Mon, 11 Sep

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Bryan and Adam reminisce about the DTrace journey 20 years after first integrating the code into Sol...

Mon, 28 Aug

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Kelsey Hightower joined Bryan and Adam to revisit a topic Bryan had spoken about a decade ago: corpo...

Mon, 21 Aug

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On August 10th, HashiCorp made the controversial decision to re-license some of the popular, formerl...

Mon, 14 Aug

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Bryan and Steve Klabnik discuss Fred Brooks' essay "No Silver Bullets"--ostensibly apropos of nothin...

Mon, 24 Jul

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In an Oxide and Friends tradition, Bryan and Adam invite the community to share book recommendations...

Mon, 17 Jul

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Bryan and Adam were joined by Justin and David from the Oxide team to talk about their work on the O...

Mon, 10 Jul

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Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide operations team to discuss the logistics of actua...

Mon, 03 Jul

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On this week's show, Adam Leventhal posed questions from Hacker News (mostly) to Oxide founders Brya...

Mon, 26 Jun

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Bryan and Adam offer a rebuttal to the AI doomerism that has been gaining volume. And--hoo-boy--this...

Mon, 19 Jun

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Greg and Rain from the Oxide team joined Bryan and Adam to talk about powerful methods of verifying ...

Mon, 12 Jun

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Jordan Hendricks joined Bryan and Adam to talk about her work virtualizing time--particularly challe...

Tue, 30 May 2023 08:30:00 -0700

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Bryan and Adam are joined by Ashley Williams to talk about open source governance... and the recentl...

Mon, 15 May

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Bryan and Adam are joined by Jonathan and Jignesh from Samtec to discuss working together to build t...

Mon, 08 May

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Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Arjen, Matt, John, and Nathaneal to talk about the man...

Mon, 01 May

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Erin Kissane joins Bryan and Adam to talk the new social network "Bluesky" through the lens of her b...

Mon, 17 Apr

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The Rust Foundation caused a fracas with their proposed new trademark rules. Bryan and Adam were luc...

Mon, 03 Apr

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Bryan and Adam are joined by Doug Wibben and Robert Keith to talk about the mechanical design of the...

Mon, 27 Mar

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Andrew Stone of Oxide Engineering joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about his purpos...

Mon, 20 Mar

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Bryan and Adam and the Oxide Friends take on GPT and its implications for software engineering. Many...

Fri, 17 Mar

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Eric Vishria of Benchmark and Oxide CEO, Steve Tuck, join Bryan and Adam to talk about Silicon Valle...

Mon, 27 Feb

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Bryan and Adam are joined by a number of members of the Oxide networking team to talk about the netw...

Mon, 13 Feb

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Yael Grauer joined Bryan, Adam, Steve Klabnik, and the Oxide Friends to talk about her recent Consum...

Mon, 06 Feb

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Members of the Oxide team join Bryan and Adam to talk about our journey through compliance (spoiler:...

Mon, 23 Jan

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Oxide and Friends: January 23rd, 2023Revisiting UnikernelsWe've been hosting a live show weekly on M...

Mon, 16 Jan

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We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; he...

Mon, 09 Jan

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See github for the list of predictions (and add your own!)

Mon, 26 Dec

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Break it down with Ian BrownWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour...

Mon, 19 Dec

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A Debugging OdysseyWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and rec...

Mon, 12 Dec

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Oxide and Friends: December 12th, 2022Podcasts for Podcast-LoversWe've been hosting a live show week...

Mon, 28 Nov

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Oxide and Friends: November 28th, 2022Leaving Twitter with Tim BrayWe've been hosting a live show we...

Mon, 14 Nov

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We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (...

Mon, 07 Nov

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Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 7th, 2022Tech LayoffsWe've been holding a Twitter Space we...

Mon, 31 Oct

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Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 31st, 2022Open Source FirmwareWe've been holding a Twitter ...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 19:00:00 -0700

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Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 27th, 2022Let That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?)We've been ho...

Mon, 24 Oct

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Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 24th, 2022Open Source Inside BaseballWe've been holding a T...

Mon, 10 Oct

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Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 10th, 2022Holistic BootWe've been holding a Twitter Space w...