Oxide Computer, Thursday, June 18th, 2026
Performance Has Layers
Oxide explains how owning the full stack enables coordinated networking performance gains like jumbo frames.
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Oxide and Friends, Tuesday, June 9th, 2026
This Old Repo: LLMs and the Restoration of BattleTris
Oxide and Friends discusses how LLMs helped revive BattleTris, a 1993 networked Tetris game, and the implications for legacy code.
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Oxide Computer Company, Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026
iddqd, or the Hardest Kind of Unsafe Rust
Rain Paharia explains iddqd, a Rust library for maps with borrowed keys, and discusses safe abstraction of unsafe code.
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Oxide, Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Oxide and Friends: Mechanical Engineering at Oxide
Oxide's engineering team discusses mechanical challenges and manufacturing scaling for rack-scale computers.
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Oxide Computer News, Friday, February 13th, 2026
Oxide Closes $200M Series C To Scale On-Premises Cloud Computing
Thomas Tull's USIT fund and existing investors deepen commitment as Oxide secures long-term independence and focuses on customer expansion
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Oxide Computer News, Friday, February 13th, 2026
Oxide Plans New Rack Attack, Packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM
Oxide says AMD's Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works
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Oxide Computer, Thursday, January 8th, 2026
Oxide And Friends: Predictions 2026!! (1:39:06)
Time for the annual predictions episode! Bryan and Adam were joined by frequent future-ologists Simon Willison, Steve Klabnik, and Ian Grunert to review past predictions and peer into the future.
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The Pragmatic Engineer, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
The History Of Servers, The Cloud, And What's Next - With Oxide
How have servers and the cloud evolved in the last 30 years, and what might be next? Bryan Cantrill was a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems during both the Dotcom Boom and the Dotcom Bust. Today, he is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer, where he works on modern server infrastructure.
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The New Stack, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
Bryan Cantrill: How Kubernetes Broke The AWS Cloud Monopoly
By introducing a vendor-neutral orchestration layer, Kubernetes shattered the "API lock-in" that once made AWS's market dominance appear insurmountable.
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Oxide Computer, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
Systems Software In The Large
Software is hard (yes, even in an era of vibe coding), and systems software - the silent engine room of modern infrastructure - is especially so. By design, systems software provides an abstraction for programs, insulating programmers from the filthy details that lie beneath; piercing that abstraction to implement the underlying system is to embrace those details and their gnarly implications.
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