Oxide and Friends

By: Oxide Computer Company
  • Summary

  • Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB Subscribe to our calendar: https://sesh.fyi/api/calendar/v2/iMdFbuFRupMwuTiwvXswNU.ics
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Episodes
  • Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino)
    Oct 16 2024

    George Cozma of Chips and Cheese joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about AMD's new 5th generation EPYC processor, codename: Turin. What's new in Turin and how is Oxide's Turin-based platform coming along?

    In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest George Cozma, as well as Oxide colleagues Robert Mustacchi, Eric Aasen, Nathanael Huffman, and the quietly observant Aaron Hartwig.

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

    • Chips and Cheese: AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched
    • End of the Road: An Anandtech Farewell
    • Centaur Technology
    • AVX-512
    • Zen5's AVX512 Teardown + More...
    • Thermal Power Design (TDP)
    • OxF: Rack Scale Networking (use of p4)
    • P4
    • AGESA
    • OxF: The Network Behind the Network (Oxide server recovery)
    • openSIL
    • phoronix: openSIL
    • PCB backdrilling
    • OxF: AMD's MI300 (APUs)
    • dtrace.conf(24) -- The DTrace unconference, December 11th, 2024

    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!

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    1 hr and 54 mins
  • Querying Metrics with OxQL
    Oct 2 2024

    Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleague, Ben Naecker, to talk about OxQL--the Oxide Query Language we've developed for interacting with our metrics system. Yes, another query language, and, yes, we're DSL maximalists, but listen in before you accuse us of simple NIH!

    In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Oxide colleague, Ben Naecker.

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

    • RFD 463: The Oxide Query Language
    • GenAI podcast on the OxQL RFD
    • RFD 125: Telemetry requirements and building blocks
    • InfluxDB
    • ClickHouse
    • Simon Willison: SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL
    • Oxide CLI timeseries docs
    • Oxide CLI timeseries dashboard code
    • OxQL source code
    • Rust peg crate
    • Gorilla
    • Clickhouse paper
    • OxF: Whither CockroachDB?
    • ANTLR
    • ACM Queue 2009: Purpose Built Languages

    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!

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • RTO or GFTO
    Sep 26 2024

    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 epiphanies real or is RTO fueled by nostalgia, fear... and finance? Stay tuned / we apologize for the exposition on in-office games.

    In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included friend of the pod, Matt Amdur, and Chris.

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

    • Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Strengthening our culture and teams
    • OxF: The Future of Work
    • Amazon leadership principles
    • Nathanael's blog: Building Big Systems with Remote Hardware Teams

    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!

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    1 hr and 40 mins

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