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RTO or GTFO
Season 4 Episode 25
With Amazon's return to office (RTO) mandate in the news, Bryan and Adam revisit the topic (it's been 2.5 years since last time!). Are in-office epip…
1 year, 6 months ago
Reflecting on Founder Mode
Season 4 Episode 24
With some time passed, Bryan and Adam offer a non-hot take on Paul Graham's "Founder Mode" post. While there is plenty to quibble over, there's also …
1 year, 6 months ago
RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide
Season 4 Episode 23
RFDs--Requests for Discussion--are how we at Oxide discuss... just about everything! Technical design, hardware component selection, changes in proce…
1 year, 7 months ago
Whither CockroachDB?
Season 4 Episode 22
Lots of engineering decisions get made on vibes. Popularity, anecdotes—they can lead to expedient decisions rather than rigorous ones. At Oxide, our …
1 year, 7 months ago
The Saga of Sagas
Season 4 Episode 21
The Oxide control plane coordinates multiple services to do complex, compound operations. Early on, we knew we wanted to provide a robust structure f…
1 year, 7 months ago
Pragmatic LLM usage with Nicholas Carlini
Season 4 Episode 20
Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his terrific blog post on his many pragmatic uses of LLMs to solve real problems. He has great a…
1 year, 7 months ago
CrowdStrike BSOD Fiasco with Katie Moussouris
Season 4 Episode 19
Bryan and Adam were joined by security expert, Katie Moussouris, to discuss the largest global IT outage in history. It was an event as broadly impac…
1 year, 8 months ago
Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri
Season 4 Episode 18
Raja Koduri joined Bryan and Adam to answer a question sent in from a listener: what's are the differences between a CPU, GPU, FPGA, and ASIC? And af…
1 year, 8 months ago
Innovation Tokens with Charity Majors
Season 4 Episode 17
Charity Majors joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about the idea of "innovation tokens"--a fixed budget for, so called, "innovative" p…
1 year, 8 months ago
Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble?
Season 4 Episode 16
Every so often we like to give our Oxide and Friends hot takes (or as Adam puts it "Bryan getting trolled on Twitter"). This time, a viral tweet sugg…
1 year, 9 months ago