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Oxide Computer: Docs

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Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

#21

Oxide is an HN darling. I have never seen anything even close to negative about them here. I hope someone writes a case-study about this. It seems to be a mix of the charisma of the team/founders and their product that makes everyone love them. I would put Wireguard/Tailscale in the same category as well.

fly.io too, although the scales have fallen from the eyes of HN to some extent after their repeated outages

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

#22

Oxide is an HN darling. I have never seen anything even close to negative about them here. I hope someone writes a case-study about this. It seems to be a mix of the charisma of the team/founders and their product that makes everyone love them. I would put Wireguard/Tailscale in the same category as well.

But are people buying their machines?

They only started shipping this month... so, jury's out?

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

#23

Oxide is an HN darling. I have never seen anything even close to negative about them here. I hope someone writes a case-study about this. It seems to be a mix of the charisma of the team/founders and their product that makes everyone love them. I would put Wireguard/Tailscale in the same category as well.

But are people buying their machines?

They recently shipped their first rack IIRC.

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

#24

Oxide's "On the Metal" podcast is an incredibly fun deep dive into technical issues no one should have to deal with as told by people who lived them. "Deep" as in: software DRAM drivers, Ring -1 security, bespoke motherboard designs... I only wish there were more episodes. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal I just noticed they have a second podcast. I'll assume it's just as good. https://oxide.computer/podc…

This sounds like a great listen. Thanks for mentioning it

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

#25

Oxide is an HN darling. I have never seen anything even close to negative about them here. I hope someone writes a case-study about this. It seems to be a mix of the charisma of the team/founders and their product that makes everyone love them. I would put Wireguard/Tailscale in the same category as well.

But are people buying their machines?

no, companies are :)

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

#26

Oxide's "On the Metal" podcast is an incredibly fun deep dive into technical issues no one should have to deal with as told by people who lived them. "Deep" as in: software DRAM drivers, Ring -1 security, bespoke motherboard designs... I only wish there were more episodes. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal I just noticed they have a second podcast. I'll assume it's just as good. https://oxide.computer/podc…

Are these available in text or article format?

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

#27
post #5

As someone who's only dealt with commodity server hardware, these specs make me salivate. And all these boot/management TUIs are just so satisfying to look at. (Sorry to be that guy, but just a friendly suggestion: high contrast dark themes are difficult to read for people with astigmatism. Especially since this is technical documentation, intended to be thoroughly read, you might want to consider a light theme toggl…

> As someone who's only dealt with commodity server hardware, these specs make me salivate

Commodity servers have the same specs.

Here’s a reseller of SuperMicro servers, where you can buy similar compute on the cheap.

https://www.siliconmechanics.com/systems/servers/rackform

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

#28

Oxide's "On the Metal" podcast is an incredibly fun deep dive into technical issues no one should have to deal with as told by people who lived them. "Deep" as in: software DRAM drivers, Ring -1 security, bespoke motherboard designs... I only wish there were more episodes. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal I just noticed they have a second podcast. I'll assume it's just as good. https://oxide.computer/podc…

O+F is really good especially if you can make it to the Discord Server

https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

#29
Finally I actually understand what they're building. Now I must ask: Why?

On-prem servers aren't a new invention. The market seems pretty saturated (and shrinking). Virtualization isn't a new invention either. The market seems pretty well served, at least commercially. Can the integration of both be a convincing enough advantage?

The management UI certainly looks nice; it's something I'd like to have on my KVM box at home (any good Proxmox alternatives?). I don't see why it'd have to be bound to an enormous server.

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

#30
post #8

> Oxide Computer Model 0, also known as the “0x1” So is it 1 or is it 0..

Hopefully they end up with a German market only SKU before the next generation of hardware ships, otherwise it’s a real missed opportunity.
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