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Is it weird that I'm insanely excited about Oxide as a product, even though I have absolutely no need or use case for it?
But my secret hope his to eventually get an Oxide branded developer laptop. The design language alone would make it worth it. But not holding my breath as that clearly not their priority.
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I got massively excited by SmartOS, too. Coming from a vSphere and Hyper-V world I found it to be a joy to use. The way that Illumos zones leverage ZFS is really, really cool. The tooling in SmartOS was very nice to use, too. I never used it in production anywhere, admittedly. I also never got a chance to try out Triton. I'm on the fence about whether or not I keep my SmartOS hosts in my home network now that Illumos…
We run Triton and individual SmartOS boxes in production. They have pretty much replaced all of our VMWare and linux-based hypervisors save some very specific use cases, mostly relating to GPU passthrough and NVIDIA. The case with OpenZFS does worry me as well. I fear the developers start slowly introducing linuxisms thus sacrificing portability and stability for the great penguin.
I would love to hear more about the replacement of VMware experience and any other Triton details good/bad.
Oxide is hiring in the following areas: electrical engineering, security, embedded, control plane + API, internal systems automation, dev tools, and product design. (I work there.) https://oxide.computer/careers
Curious... if I'm still in the "triage" bucket after 6 weeks should I assume the ship has sailed? I was really hoping to hear back one way or the other!
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No, you will hear back. We're trying really hard to keep to the 6 weeks thing but sometimes we don't succeed.
I would think that startups would want to bias for people that can make good decisions quickly, within a short decision time. Perhaps hardware startups want more conservative employees? Also in my experience, a fabulous candidate is sometimes only available for a very short time window (they either have become available due to unforeseen circumstances, or they are snapped up by a faster mover). Is six weeks fast in y…
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Idk, KVM/libvirt/qemu has worked fine for me. It is very lightweight compared to say VMWare. If I don't want VMs I could use Docker/containerd. What problem does Oxide solve exactly?
Sell you a few racks of servers, ready to use out of the box, I guess?
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The podcast is awesome. Wish they would continue with more episodes!
They've been doing Twitter Spaces for several months now, with recordings and show notes here: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces Disclosure: I was the main speaker on one of their spaces.
Oxide if you're listening, please publish these on the podcast feed to make them more accessible and followable.
Oxide is hiring in the following areas: electrical engineering, security, embedded, control plane + API, internal systems automation, dev tools, and product design. (I work there.) https://oxide.computer/careers
Unrelated: But anyone remember xoxide.com? The computer building site from the early 2000s? One of my favorite sites of all time.
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The podcast is awesome. Wish they would continue with more episodes!
They've been doing Twitter Spaces for several months now, with recordings and show notes here: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces Disclosure: I was the main speaker on one of their spaces.
I read a note quickly about Oxide and Twitter Spaces a while ago, but as I read the keyword Twitter with a mindset of "good for short notes and links to external sources" as I wasn't at all aware of voice capabilities, might be shortfall of using Twitter in the browser..
Thus I now have lots of interesting material to enjoy.
Oxide is hiring in the following areas: electrical engineering, security, embedded, control plane + API, internal systems automation, dev tools, and product design. (I work there.) https://oxide.computer/careers
All your positions seem to be US-based, though. Or am I missing something?