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EPISODE · Dec 6, 2019 · 1H 44M

Amir Michael

from On The Metal · host Oxide Computer Company

You can find Amir on Facebook at https://facebook.com/amir and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/digiamir.Some of the highlights of the show include: Silcon wafers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer_(electronics)The "Turbo button": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_buttonBBSs: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/the-lost-civilization-of-dial-up-bulletin-board-systems/506465/Turbo Pascal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_PascalAnders Hejlsberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_HejlsbergUCSB's Basic Undergraduate RISC Processor (BURP): https://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~strukov/ece152BSpring2012/Labs/Lab2.pdfThermal grease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grease"The Datacenter as Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines" https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00874ED3V01Y201809CAC046Sun Modular Data Center, née Project Blackbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_DatacenterGoogle Modular Data Center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Modular_Data_CenterSPD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_presence_detectDRAM training: https://www.systemverilog.io/ddr4-initialization-and-calibrationOrigins of 19" rack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19-inch_rack#Overview_and_historyOpen Compute Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Compute_ProjectFacebook Wedge switch: https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/facebook-open-switching-system-fboss-and-wedge-in-the-open/Backblaze drive reports: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/Busbar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busbar

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On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Amir Michael. Join us as we listen to stories of growing up and coming up in Silicon Valley, from answering a Craigslist ad during the Dot Com Bust for a company with a funny name, through starting a project at Facebook that became an industry-wide movement -- with many exciting tales in between!

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