Oxide Computer Company’s Tweets

May 25

We (obviously!) love On the Metal, but we have found that using

@TwitterSpaces

for Oxide and Friends has allowed for more dynamic content -- and many more voices. (And, dare we say, fewer ad breaks?) A quick thread with a few favorites from the past year... 1/

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May 24

The Oxide and Friends podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oxi

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Oxide Computer's Bryan Cantrill on the Importance of Toolmaking

The New Stack

@thenewstack

Oct 26

Oxide Computer's Bryan Cantrill on the Importance of Toolmaking bit.ly/3gJcKMG

The tools created to help make daily workflow better have the potential to reshape software development. So why isn't there more importance placed on their development? Bryan Cantrill has the answer!

Oct 26

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geoff.kubecon

@GeoffreyHuntley

Oct 25

Replying to @tarrooon and @oxidecomputer

so hot rn

Tarun Pothulapati @ KubeCon

@tarrooon

Oct 25

Got stopped atleast 5 times today at #KubeCon asking about the

t-shirt, and the event hasn’t even started! 👀

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Oct 25

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Still, there's tons of growth and disruption for bringing cloud management principles into managing bare metal. Look at companies like @oxidecomputer or @digitalocean for future and past innovation.

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$ axo | otl

@axodotdev

Oct 23

"some of the most consequential developments in software history were groups that were seeking to build tools to build the end thing, it's those tools that became great contributions" "sharpening the axe: the primacy of toolmaking" -

Sharpening the Axe: The Primacy of Toolmaking

@P99CONF

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Watch all the P99 CONF 2022 talks here: https://www.p99conf.io/ools -- things used to make other things -- are at the very core of our humanity. But despi...

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Oct 18

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@tarrooon

Oct 18

Ooooohhhhh!

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Keith Townsend #Kubecon Detroit

Oct 13

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@CTOAdvisor

Oct 13

Customers are asking, How do I get the economics of on-prem with the operating experience of the public cloud?

Oct 12

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Gui Ambros

@GuiAmbros

Oct 12

Replying to @saranormous

IMO "Oxide and Friends", by @oxidecomputer, is one of the best technical podcasts, hands down. Amazing cast, interesting guests, in-depth and technical discussions. Each episode is a gem. The previous incarnation ("On the Metal") was equally good. oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide

Oct 10

Today on Oxide and Friends,

and I will be talking about holistic boot and the platform initialization approach that we've taken at

; join us! twitter.com/i/spaces/1OyKA

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If you are wondering about our approach to platform initialization, see this excellent explanation from @dave_universetf

twitter.com/dave_universet…

😳☺️🙏

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Chris Hoge

@hogepodge

Oct 7

Fantastic talk on holistic computer systems by @bcantrill. I’m sold on @oxidecomputer being one of the most important startups of this decade. osfc.io/2022/talks/i-h

steveklabnik

@steveklabnik

Hell yeah we have

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Dave Anderson

@dave_universetf

Oct 7

Replying to @dave_universetf @aChrisSmith and @oxidecomputer

Net result is Oxide has more awareness and control over the hardware than pretty much any other x86 computer, afaict. And they've removed at least several dozen megabytes of proprietary, uninspectable, undebuggable code from their platform, replacing it with regular kernel code.

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If you are wondering about our approach to platform initialization, see this excellent explanation from

@dave_universetf

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Dave Anderson

@dave_universetf

Oct 7

Replying to @aChrisSmith and @oxidecomputer

Yeah, on a desktop x86 computer, there's the moral equivalent of 2 or 3 fairly large operating systems that run before your operating system. Some of them stay resident while your OS is running, and conspire to lie to your OS about what the machine is doing.

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Oct 3

This is a great question -- and one that

and I will pick up in our

and Friends Twitter Space today twitter.com/i/spaces/1RDGl

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Jan Harasym

@dijit

Oct 3

Replying to @bcantrill

Real talk: how on earth can we incentivise maintenance? Fixes, life improvements., the invisible little things which make everything better.

Oct 2

Headed out to the Bay Area for OCP Summit? Interested in a sneak peek at the Oxide rack and some nerd out time with Oxide engineers? Sign up for our newsletter for details about an exclusive open house that week at our offices in Emeryville!

Servers as they should be. Hardware, with the software baked in, for running infrastructure at scale. Shipping 2022.

Oxide

P99CONF

@P99CONF

Sep 29

The hottest stickers in town are included in the #P99CONF swag pack - thank you

! Register now for free at bit.ly/3RwoQ8E #scylladb

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Ben Leonard

@lenjaminbeonard

Jun 19

Not got space for an @oxidecomputer rack - I got you covered

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Nathanael Huffman

@SyntheticGate

Here it is working.

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U.2 to CEM extender installed in an Oxide Computer Gimlet sled’s U.2 drive bay, with a CEM NIC installed in the extender.

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"Unfortunate but reasonable" 🤣

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Nathanael Huffman

@SyntheticGate

TFW you really need a CEM slot but only have U.2 bays…

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A circuit board with a PCIe U.2 drive connector on one end and a x4 PCIe CEM slot on the other.

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Sep 24

"This is a BMC-free computer. That's the kind of feature you dream about: no BMC! Service processors? Welcome! But if you are a BMC or planning on becoming a BMC anytime soon, this is not your computer, stay home."

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Sep 23

Does this work as a marketing concept? Is @oxidecomputer making a spite computer? twitter.com/ProManimalUnit…

Sep 19

I had a ton of fun giving this talk -- thank you for having me! Slides are here, video (which includes a demo of booting an

Open Source Firmware Conference

sled!) to come: slideshare.net/bcantrill/i-ha

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@osfc_io

Sep 19

@bcantrill is rocking the stage at #OSFC2022 - we hope you like it so far the same as we do!

Kate Hicks

Sep 14

Finally got my photo op with the

rack. Even an empty EVT rack was super impressive, can’t wait to travel and see the full demo rack in CA soon!

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Today on our

and Friends Twitter Space,

and I will be taking up this topic. What are the arguments for and against asynchrony in a system? Join us, 5p Pacific today! twitter.com/i/spaces/1kvJp

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Sep 4

Have folks seen a good systems-level discussion of async/await/promises/futures? I was explaining it to my son who is learning programming and found very few that didn’t quickly lapse into “it’s performant” and “context switching doesn’t scale”

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steveklabnik

@steveklabnik

Sep 9

If you've ever wondered how

is dealing with supply chain issues... the answer is we've got some awesome folks, working hard. Here's how they're taking care of things:

Navigating Today’s Supply Chain Challenges / Oxide

The tale of a small tech startup navigating procurement in the most constrained market in recent history.

Kate Hicks

Sep 9

Tales of startup supply chain up on the

blog, or as Kirstin would put it, when allocation hits the fan.

Navigating Today’s Supply Chain Challenges / Oxide

The tale of a small tech startup navigating procurement in the most constrained market in recent history.

Sep 7

On Monday night's Oxide and Friends, the category was "Potpourri".

Twitter Space 9/5/2022 -- Potpourri: Product, Platform, Paravirtual...

and I fielded questions about Oxide, random topics, recent reads... all while barely mentioning the oppressive heat! Some notable topics below:

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Notes: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces/blob/master/2022_09_05.md

on Rust, Wright's Law, and the Future of Low-Latency Systems, in

@thenewstack

And get ready for more talks like this at #P99CONF 2022. #latency #rustlang #distributedsystems ow.ly/fQlv50KCtZ6

Aug 31

I have loved many of our

Twitter Spaces, but this one is particularly compelling: it shines a light on a thorny but often underappreciated problem -- and on the revolutionary approach that

and her team have taken. A must-listen!

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Aug 31

Big thanks to @mrskatehicks for joining me and @bcantrill for Monday's Oxide and Friend Twitter Space talking about the supply chain crunch, war stories, and some of the (incredible!) ways we've navigated the supply chain at @oxidecomputer. Recording here youtube.com/watch?v=e0UKvT

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Big thanks to

for joining me and

for Monday's Oxide and Friend Twitter Space talking about the supply chain crunch, war stories, and some of the (incredible!) ways we've navigated the supply chain at

Twitter Space 8/29/2022 -- The Oxide Supply Chain

. Recording here

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Notes: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces/blob/master/2022_08_29.md

Aug 30

Number of days since last issue due to lane swap: 0

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Daniel Mangum @ kubecon

@hasheddan

Aug 30

Have never felt more seen than when I was listening to the @oxidecomputer and Friends “Tales from the Bringup Lab” episode earlier today and someone said “every engineer who has worked with FTDI chips has had to deal with ‘whose tx and rx?’”.

Replying to

This is different from the typical discussion from the Oxide team. However the opportunity to get to hear from someone who is totally on top of the h/w supply chain is very rare, and

is definitely that someone.

Curious about how

is cracking the supply chain? Join

and me as we talk with our colleague

about all of the incredible work that she and her team have done at Oxide! This stuff is rarely talked about publicly -- join us!

From

"If I had one piece of technical leadership advice: if people want to build tooling let them". If there is one unwritten law in Oxide it's that, and it's paid off for us over and over and over.

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Aug 23

This was a ton of fun! Thank you to

engineers

, and

; our friends from

and

; and special guest

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Today @ahl and I are going to be talking about the challenge of end-to-end signal integrity in the @oxidecomputer backplane with @arjenroodselaar, @random_enginerd, and some of the folks who helped along the way. Join us, 5p Pacific! twitter.com/i/spaces/1rmxP

Today

and I are going to be talking about the challenge of end-to-end signal integrity in the

backplane with

@arjenroodselaar

@random_enginerd

, and some of the folks who helped along the way. Join us, 5p Pacific! twitter.com/i/spaces/1rmxP

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Arjen Roodselaar

@arjenroodselaar

Aug 5

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This is a measurement two years in the making. Ever since we started designing the cabled backplane for the @oxidecomputer rack I figured we would be able to characterize this channel from BGA footprint to BGA footprint using a real measurement. @random_enginerd made that happen.

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Ben Leonard

@lenjaminbeonard

Aug 19

Take a look at the new

site. Oxide racks are shipping by the end of the year, and this felt like a great opportunity to develop something that we can build upon for launch and beyond...

Servers as they should be. Hardware, with the software baked in, for running infrastructure at scale. Shipping 2022.

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Aug 16

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Zane Mountcastle

@zanemountcastle

Aug 15

Serious engineers will eventually build their own hardware

Aug 15

We are shipping our first racks by the end of the year, and we are very excited to get our new website up -- including many more details about what we've done and why. Awesome work,

@lenjaminbeonard

and crew!

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On our Twitter Space this week,

and I going to take on

@magdalenakala

's question. Bring your conventional wisdom that you think needs debunking, and join us tomorrow at 5p Pacific! twitter.com/i/spaces/1YqKD

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"Dual source everything" twitter.com/magdalenakala/…

Really enjoyed being a guest on

@lauraklein

's "What is Wrong with Hiring" podcast, in which I describe the surprising (and embarrassing?) origins of

Innovative Recruiting - A unique approach to hiring with Bryan...

's hiring process:

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00:48:05 - In this episode, Laura talks to Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Oxide, about a wildly different approach to recruiting and hiring. Drink Pairing: Diet Dr. …

Or take the approach that we have taken at