Technology Nostalgia and Engineering Metrics Evaluation

The Oxide Friends talk about about cultural idiosyncrasies--turns out we have a lot of them at Oxide! Some might even sound good enough for you to try out! Demo Fridays, morning water-cooler, no-meet Wednesdays, recorded meetings, dog-pile debugging (aka CSPAN for debugging), RFDs (requests for discussion), no performance review process...

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague Steve Klabnik.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Bryan: Engineering a culture
• Matt: It's Free Real Estate
• Cliff: Who killed the network switch?
• OxF: Engineering Culture
• Demo Day
• Jujutsu
• Covid as a catalyst for remote-friendly features
• Watercooler morning meeting
• No-meet Wednesday
• OtM: Jeff Rothschild
• No (formalized) review process
• The non-zero-sum value of praise
• Positive Coaching Alliance
• Chat as the apple of discord (and remember email?! Or jabber??!!)
• DORA
• Oxide RFDs
• RFD 68: Partnership as Shared Values
• Matthew Sanabria: Observability Companies to Watch in 2024
• "Chat"
• "Rock and stone"

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!