Wow, congrats!
Today is my first day at Oxide Computer Company
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#22Can someone provide on ELI5 for what this company does and how it's different? I get that its goal is to allow folks to buy instead of rent their hardware, but how is it different from the old days of buying servers? Are they trying to offer folks AWS or Azure quality servers for purchase? Or am I just totally missing this?
So, I was trying to keep this post short and to the point, but if you want a longer description, straight from the mouth of one of the founders, you may like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc > Are they trying to offer folks AWS or Azure quality servers for purchase? I think "quality" doesn't really capture 100% of it, but in a sense, yes. The goal is extremely quality, performant, robust servers. I will ha…
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Re: Today is my first day at Oxide Computer Company
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, I was trying to keep this post short and to the point, but if you want a longer description, straight from the mouth of one of the founders, you may like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc > Are they trying to offer folks AWS or Azure quality servers for purchase? I think "quality" doesn't really capture 100% of it, but in a sense, yes. The goal is extremely quality, performant, robust servers. I will ha…
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Hey! Thanks for the heads up, can you email Jess [at] oxide [dot] computer and I will add you and try to figure it out! Thanks!
Re: Today is my first day at Oxide Computer Company
#24Can someone provide on ELI5 for what this company does and how it's different? I get that its goal is to allow folks to buy instead of rent their hardware, but how is it different from the old days of buying servers? Are they trying to offer folks AWS or Azure quality servers for purchase? Or am I just totally missing this?
So, I was trying to keep this post short and to the point, but if you want a longer description, straight from the mouth of one of the founders, you may like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc > Are they trying to offer folks AWS or Azure quality servers for purchase? I think "quality" doesn't really capture 100% of it, but in a sense, yes. The goal is extremely quality, performant, robust servers. I will ha…
Do I understand correctly that the software layer of Oxide's product will be a hypervisor running VMs with hardware virtualization? If so, that's super surprising to hear from @bcantrill, considering how many talks he gave about running containers without VMs.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, I was trying to keep this post short and to the point, but if you want a longer description, straight from the mouth of one of the founders, you may like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc > Are they trying to offer folks AWS or Azure quality servers for purchase? I think "quality" doesn't really capture 100% of it, but in a sense, yes. The goal is extremely quality, performant, robust servers. I will ha…
Do I understand correctly that the software layer of Oxide's product will be a hypervisor running VMs with hardware virtualization? If so, that's super surprising to hear from @bcantrill, considering how many talks he gave about running containers without VMs.
It is a bit too early to get into details like this, to be honest. It'll all become more clear publicly as more work gets done :)
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#26Re: Today is my first day at Oxide Computer Company
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is "from scratch" the determinant of a good engineer? That's a tiny portion of the work, and only a single component of an individual's contribution.
Obviously if you are not writing your programs in binary by manually magnetizing a hard drive, you are not a _real_ engineer. I personally only use CPUs that I have hand made from the organic metals mined in my backyard.
I cant stop laughing!!! I may die soon! Awesome reply!