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Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by lispisok »

bsaul wrote: post #79
akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #3

I just came to know about Oxide the other day, and god damn if it is not a dream workplace! High salary, flat structure, a large open-source presence, and maybe much more! Their blogs are really good too. I am an undergraduate right now and looking at the people working there, it doesn't seem likely they would hire a fresh grad, I think I have found the yardstick I am going to measure myself by going forward, "Am I s…

After a recent experience with flat structures, i tend to be really suspicious. My experience was a total mess of organization, with slack bipping all the time, and nobody "in charge" of maintaining common sense in the architecture, with a long term vision. Total chaos.

My experience with flat structure is the most stubborn opinionated people end up making all the decisions because they dont budge and get to escape all responsibility for bad calls. Better to have a designated lead.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by 999900000999 »

woooooo wrote: post #197
pfraze wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you went through multiple rounds it likely means they were seriously considering you but ultimately they didn’t get to a yes. If it’s any comfort that means you did pretty well. The short stints on a resume is likely not the only reason you didn’t get to 100%, but unfortunately you should know that it’s seen as a pretty bad signal. The general expectation is 2 years minimum at a gig. If you have multiple short non…

If they heard from the CEO specifically, it was probably based on the CEO vibe checking the resume as a last step after passing the entire interview process. The CEO may have spent 15 minutes on it.

It was actually a round with the CEO.

I don't feel disrespected or anything, just feels weird to spend that much time interviewing someone.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by kristjansson »

voidUpdate wrote: post #18

I'm confused what their product is... "The cloud you own"? Isn't that just... a server? Sure, it looks like a very nice server, but is there anything special about it apart from that?

A stack of 38x 1U and a switch does not a cloud make.

Slightly less pithy: they're selling rack-scale systems, with power, hardware, network, and control plane software all integrated. Something that presents to the user as something more like API to interact with than a pile of servers to be managed.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by shrubble »

kristjansson wrote: post #218
arjie wrote: post #214

I get the whole x CPUs y RAM story (it's akin to how clouds sell) and that often makes sense in the cloud, but when managing my datacenter operations a big constraining point is compute / kW. At 30 A / 208 V at 85% efficiency I've got 5 kW to work with per cabinet. If I'm putting in low core density slow machines I've got to do a lot more management than if I'm using my Epyc 9755 based servers. This is a practical co…

> 5 kW to work with per cabinet have my expectations been shot by reading too much about Nvidia's latest and greatest, or does this seem quite low?

That’s standard practice in many data centers; but you can often pay more to get more amps delivered to your rack.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by arjie »

kristjansson wrote: post #218
arjie wrote: post #214

I get the whole x CPUs y RAM story (it's akin to how clouds sell) and that often makes sense in the cloud, but when managing my datacenter operations a big constraining point is compute / kW. At 30 A / 208 V at 85% efficiency I've got 5 kW to work with per cabinet. If I'm putting in low core density slow machines I've got to do a lot more management than if I'm using my Epyc 9755 based servers. This is a practical co…

> 5 kW to work with per cabinet have my expectations been shot by reading too much about Nvidia's latest and greatest, or does this seem quite low?

No, your expectations are not wrong. I'm a small business. A fully stacked AI/GPU cabinet is multiples of this. A single GH200 based server will have 2x2.7 kW power supplies in a 1U form factor. As you can imagine, I am not running a cabinet full of such servers. But you don't need AI power requirements to do normal software. And there's lots of normal software to do!

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by cmdrk »

KenoFischer wrote: post #85

Congratulations to the Oxide team! It's a tough market out there :)! I'm still personally frustrated that I don't get to play with the hardware (too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers), but I'm excited to see that they're successful and hopefully they'll come around to my use case eventually :). In the meantime, I appreciate that they're building largely i…

> too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers

You and me both. They're doing neat stuff, but I wonder how many other potential customers feel that way too.

What is Oxide's market? It feels a bit like advanced alien technology that is ultimately a little too weird and expensive for most enterprises to adopt.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by panick21_ »

moregrist wrote: post #130
shimman wrote: post #7

Oxide is the only company where I check the careers page hoping that they have a position which I can apply to. Happy to see their success. Especially so if you've been following their journey through their podcasts (easily the best tech podcast out there if you care about your craft; no filler, all killer).

I really tried to like the podcast. It’s been a few years, so maybe it’s improved. The topics were good. The guests were great. But Bryan Cantrill was just terrible at letting his guests actually talk. Bryan, if you’re listening, please let your guests talk. We have a large amount of content on YouTube if we want to hear the Bryan Cantrill take on, well, anything and everything. And it’s often amusing and sometimes r…

I disagree. I found the 'On the Metal' to be great balance between the guest and the hosts. And Oxide and Friends I would expect Oxide to be big part of it.

And Jonathon Blow manages to talk enough ...

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by shrubble »

sylvinus wrote: post #26

Love Oxide and what they're building, but I'm not sure raising even more VC money is the way to build a generational company. Quite the opposite? With money you don't need, you're trading faster growth for more dependencies on third parties that will seek a ROI eventually?

As companies grow, their capital needs actually increase, even if they are profitable.

We can hope that this is the case for Oxide, though I don’t expect they are reliably profitable yet.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by panick21_ »

dafelst wrote: post #211
ndesaulniers wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those of us who are unaware of "the value proposition" of an "IBM AS/400," could someone spell it out for us?

High capacity, super reliable box that you could run your entire business stack on, if you could afford it.

The money IBM made with the AS/400 is actually completely mind blowing when you compare it to the rest of the computing industry at the time.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by panick21_ »

FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #101
zozbot234 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Traditional hosting still, to some extend, struggle to provide the API, on demand, drive requirements for modern developers, who expect to be able stand up a bunch of virtual machines in a minute or so, especially if you also want a new private network, maybe some IPs and storage pools. If you don't like vSphere (who does?) you can do all that in Proxmox.

Proxmox isn't quite there yet for scalibility and hyperconverged but it is getting there really fast. It's more of a competitor to Microsoft HyperV HCI.

Proxmox is nice and getting there but what you simply can't replicate is the lower level firmware and managing layer. Proxmox on commodity hardware will always be limited by that. Same goes for deep integration with the switch that Oxide can do.
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