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Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack
Season 6 Episode 7
The Oxide rack contains within it a distributed system that needs to trust itself. But how is this trust built? Bryan and Adam were joined by colleag…
1 day, 7 hours ago
When Nine Nines Isn't Enough
Season 6 Episode 6
Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide team to describe the multi-year search for a mysterious source of hardware failures. All related t…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Oxide's $200M Series C
Season 6 Episode 5
Oxide raised a truckload of capital a few weeks ago to fund the business for the foreseeable future. Bryan and Steve describe the raise, and Adam pos…
1 month, 1 week ago
Shell Game with Evan Ratliff
Season 6 Episode 4
Evan Ratliff, journalist and podcaster, joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his extraordinary podcast, Shell Game, in which he started a company staf…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Software Engineering Past, Present, and Future with Grady Booch
Season 6 Episode 3
Bryan and Adam were joined by Grady Booch, software engineering pioneer and living legend, to speak about the past present and future of software eng…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
Season 6 Episode 2
What do LLMs mean for the future of software engineering? Will vibe-coded AI slop be the norm? Will software engineers simply be less in-demand? Rain…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Predictions 2026!!
Season 6 Episode 1
Time for the annual predictions episode! Bryan and Adam were joined by frequent future-ologists Simon Willison, Steve Klabnik, and Ian Grunert to rev…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
OxF 2025 Wrap-Up
Season 5 Episode 35
Bryan and Adam reflect on Oxide and Friends in 2025--favorite moments, episodes, and images. Happy new year and see you in 2026!
Your hosts are Bryan …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Death by Uptime
Season 5 Episode 34
We hit a new (and disturbing!) failure mode recently when a production rack that had been up for several months saw every (!) compute sled's service …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug
Season 5 Episode 33
Hey hey! We recently tripped over a ZFS data corruption bug–introduced over 18 years ago! Bryan and Adam discuss with members of the Oxide team as we…
4 months, 1 week ago