Oxide and Friends cover art

All Episodes

Oxide and Friends — 177 episodes

#
Title
1

AI in Computer Science Education

2

Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images]

3

Are LLMs Insufficently Lazy

4

Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack

5

When Nine Nines Isn't Enough

6

Oxide's $200M Series C

7

Shell Game with Evan Ratliff

8

Software Engineering Past, Present, and Future with Grady Booch

9

Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

10

Predictions 2026!!

11

OxF 2025 Wrap-Up

12

Death by Uptime

13

Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug

14

Founder vs. Investor with Liz Zalman and Jerry Neumann

15

Futurelock

16

Books in the Box V

17

AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman

18

Systems Software in the Large

19

Scaling Manufacturing

20

Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann

21

The Promises of Tech with Scott Hanselman

22

Oxide's $100M Series B

23

Adventures in Data Corruption

24

When Async Attacks!

25

Diving In with Robert Bogart

26

Debugger-Driven Development

27

AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik

28

AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel

29

RIP USENIX ATC

30

Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria

31

Shootout at the CNCF Corral

32

Bringing up Cosmo

33

Character Limit with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

34

Hell is other networks

35

Raiding the Minibar

36

Lip-Bu Tan's Intel

37

A Happy Day For Rust

38

A Crate is Born

39

Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces

40

A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

41

Textual UIs with Orhun Parmaksız

42

AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras

43

Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

44

Crates We Love

45

Predictions 2025

46

OxF 2024 Wrap-Up

47

Scaling Bluesky with Paul Frazee

48

Conferences in Tech

49

Intel after Gelsinger

50

Technical Blogging

51

Books in the Box IV

52

Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino)

53

Querying Metrics with OxQL

54

RTO or GTFO

55

Reflecting on Founder Mode

56

RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide

57

Whither CockroachDB?

58

The Saga of Sagas

59

Pragmatic LLM usage with Nicholas Carlini

60

CrowdStrike BSOD Fiasco with Katie Moussouris

61

Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri

62

Innovation Tokens with Charity Majors

63

Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble?

64

Musing with Changelog's Adam Stacoviak

65

Rebooting a datacenter: A decade later

66

Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball

67

All we have to fear is FUD itself

68

A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel

69

Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund

70

Cultural Idiosyncrasies

71

Adversarial Machine Learning

72

Data Visualization

73

Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service

74

Innovation Stagnation?

75

Helios

76

What's taking so long?!

77

Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison

78

Predictions 2024!

79

AMD's MI300 and the Future of Accelerated Compute

80

Framework Computer with Nirav Patel

81

OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl

82

Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz

83

Launching the Cloud Computer

84

Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob

85

Settling Beef

86

Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride

87

DTrace at 20

88

Open Source Anti-Patterns with Kelsey Hightower

89

Fork in the road for Terraform?

90

No Silver Bullets

91

Books in the Box III

92

The Frontend of the Computer

93

Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1

94

Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!

95

Okay, Doomer: A Rebuttal to AI Doom-mongering

96

Software Verificationpalooza

97

Virtualizing Time

98

Open Source Governance

99

Building Together: Oxide and Samtec

100

The Network Behind the Network

101

Blue Skies Over Mastodon (with Erin Kissane and Tim Bray)

102

Rust Trademark: Argle-bargle or Foofaraw?

103

Cabling the Backplane

104

Get You a State Machine for Great Good

105

Does a GPT future need software engineers?

106

On Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria

107

Rack-scale Networking

108

Memory Safety with Yael Grauer

109

Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries

110

Revisiting Unikernels

111

The Power of Proto Boards!

112

Predictions 2023!

113

Breaking it down with Ian Brown

114

A Debugging Odyssey

115

Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers

116

Leaving Twitter with Tim Bray

117

Mastodon with Kris Nova

118

Tech Layoffs

119

Open Source Firmware

120

Let That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?)

121

Open Source Inside Baseball (with Stephen O'Grady)

122

Holistic Boot

123

Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives

124

Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff

125

Threads, async/await, Promises, Futures

126

Potpourri: Product, Platform, Paravirtualization

127

The Oxide Supply Chain

128

Bringup Lab Chronicles: A Measurement Two Years in the Making

129

Surviving Conventional Wisdom

130

RIP Optane

131

Deep Tech Investing

132

Across the Chasm with Rust

133

Integrating Hardware and Software Teams

134

Books in the box redux

135

Paths into Systems Programming

136

The Rise and Fall of DEC

137

Surviving the Dot-Com Bust

138

Debugging Methodologies

139

Fail Whaling

140

More Tales from the Bringup Lab

141

Another LPC55 ROM Vulnerability

142

Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving

143

Trolltron, Assemble!

144

Ukraine

145

The Future Of Work

146

Engineering Culture

147

Breakthroughs Delayed

148

I Know This! (Purpose-built systems with general-purpose guts)

149

Taxonomy of Hype

150

Flying Blind with Peter Robison

151

Predictions 2022

152

The Pragmatism of Hubris

153

Tales from the Bringup Lab

154

The Sidecar Switch

155

Talking Turkeys

156

The Wrath of Kahn

157

Supercomputers, Cray, and How Sun Picked SGI's Pocket

158

On Code Review

159

Coder's Block

160

Dijkstra's Tweetstorm

161

Economics and Open Source

162

The Books in the Box

163

Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud

164

Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph

165

Put the OS back in OSDI

166

A brief history of talking computers

167

The episode formerly known as ℔

168

The Showstopper Show

169

Agile + 20

170

NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories

171

What's a bug? What's a debugger?

172

Barracuda 7200.11: broken firmware is broken software!

173

Silicon Cowboys

174

from /proc to proc_macro

175

golang asserts and the PLATO terminal

176

A Requiem for SPARC with Tom Lyon

177

Mr. Leventhal, Come here I want to see you