CEO Steve Tuck and friend Steve Klabnik talk about recent announcements, the launch of the Oxide Cloud Computer, and raising $44m. They discuss the surprise reception, their transparent approach, and engaging with journalists. The hosts share funny anecdotes about a food dehydrator and challenges in finding suitable journalists. They also cover logistics, investors, pricing challenges, troubleshooting, and the benefits of open-source software.

Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob discuss various topics including open source anti-patterns, the fate of companies like Heroku and HashiCorp, open source as a tool for manipulating competition, challenges of open source monetization, and building sustainable businesses with open source software.

Special guest Conor Hoekstra from the ADSP pod joins Oxide and colleague Cliff Biffle to settle podcast beef. The hosts discuss their experiences at an open source firmware conference, probabilities and flipping coins, title consultancy and gen z slang, programming language preferences, experiences with compiler bugs, the importance of backward compatibility in C++, fear in programming communities, and challenges with manipulating and deleting objects.

Adam and the Oxide Friends follow Bryan on Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride as he investigates performance anomalies. Bryan used all manner of tool from gnuplot to DTrace-inspired bpftrace! If you have ever or plan to ever care about the latency of network-borne protocols, you won't want to miss this!We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from October 2nd, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Tom Lyon, James Tucker, Eliza Weisman, and Dan Ports.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Latency Art: X marks the spotLatency Art: Rainbow PterodactylNagle on NagleDan's tweet on NagleEliza's tweet on NagleTCP_NODELAY or TCP? No, delay!Dr. Angela Collier on violin plotsPRs needed!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!

Guest Josh Clulow joins the podcast hosts, Bryan and Adam, to discuss the 20-year journey of DTrace. They reminisce about stress and deadlines during integration, reflect on the release of Solaris 9, and discuss the development process of DTrace. They also touch on naming conventions, improvements in boot time, and the positive impact of their technology. Other topics include developing meaningful instrumentation for Java, using DTrace for storage performance analysis, and the significance of CVEs and USDT in tracing.

Kelsey Hightower, an expert in corporate open source anti-patterns, joins the podcast to discuss the challenges faced by companies in utilizing open source tools. The speakers also explore the evolution of the open source community, the importance of project governance and copyright assignment, the role of first-class APIs, and the significance of developer advocacy in the software industry.

Speakers on August 21st discuss HashiCorp's controversial license change, disappointment among the Terraform community, BSL code concerns, and collaboration challenges in the Alumos Project. Excitement surrounds the manifesto with strong support and grassroots enthusiasm.

Bryan and Steve Klabnik discuss Fred Brooks' essay "No Silver Bullets"--ostensibly apropos of nothing!--discussing the challenges to 10x (or 100x!) improvements in software engineering.In addition to Bryan Cantrill speakers on included Steve Klabnik, Ian Grunert, and Tom Lyon.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:No Silver Bullet by Fred BrooksSub-podcasting (it's a thing!) thisvideo: Fred Brooks speaking on No Silver BulletRuby on Rails demo (2005)Future of coding podcastAmdahl's lawFizzBuzzEnterpriseEditionKnuth and McIlroy Approach a ProblemIf 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!

In an Oxide and Friends tradition, Bryan and Adam invite the community to share book recommendations.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on included Steve Klabnik, Tom Lyon, Ian Grunert, Owen Anderson, phillipov, makowski, and saethlin. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Elon JetHigh Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems by Southwick, KarenMaking PCR: A Story of Biotechnology by Paul RabinowSun Labs vs. SunSoft Water Fight 1992Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town Hardcover by Stacy HornBuilt to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust Kindle Edition by Alan PayneA History of Silicon Valley - Vol 1: The 20th Century Paperback by Piero ScaruffiH-E-BMoby Dick by Herman Melville (Arion Press)A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersEndurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred LansingInto the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El FaroIf Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future Hardcover by Jill LeporeUNIVAC and the 1952 Presidential ElectionNPR: The Night A Computer Predicted The Next PresidentDoom Guy: Life in First Person by John RomeroFrom Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting by Judith BrettBryan had a reading list for his wedding?! (his wife confirms)The Fatal Shore by Robert HughesHarp in the South by Ruth ParkCloudstreet by Tim WintonDeath of the Lucky Country by Donald Horne30 Days in Sydney by Peter CareyLeviathan by John BirminghamThe Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert HughesBarbarians Led by Bill Gates by Jennifer Edstrom and, Marlin EllerMurray Sargent's account of how his Scroll Screen Tracer got Windows to work in protected modeStartup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry KaplanDeviceScriptWashington: A Life by ChernowCalifornia Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power GridCommand and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric SchlosserThe Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard RothsteinActs of the Apostles: Mind over Matter: Volume Blue by John F.X. SundmanThunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. FluckeyThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory ZuckermanThe Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street by Thomas A. BassThe Eudaemonic Pie: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took On Las Vegas by Thomas A BassSome of the other books mentioned in the Discord channel:Herr aller Dinge/Lord of All Things by Andreas EschbachDebt: The First 5,000 Years by David GraeberThe Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. SimonCalifornia Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid by Katherine BluntThe Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover by Gregory ZuckermanThe Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street by Thomas A. BassThe Eudaemonic Pie: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took On Las Vegas by Thomas A BassModels.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman

Bryan and Adam were joined by Justin and David from the Oxide team to talk about their work on the Oxide Console--the frontend to the Oxide computer. The rigor they've brought to all aspects of the frontend--client/server type safety, test automation, a11y--it's astounding!We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from July 17th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues David Crespo, and Justin Bennett.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Justin's podcast: devtools.fmDavid's talk: Folding Time with Signals in ElmOxide and Friends where we mentioned ElmPlaywrightKent C. DoddsDropshot web frameworkOxide Typescript SDKOxide console repoOxide docs siteIf 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!