Bryan Cantrill on Oxide Computer

Bryan Cantrill is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company.

We discuss why the biggest cloud providers don't use off the shelf hardware, how scaling data centers at samsung's scale exposed problems with hard drive firmware, how the values of NodeJS are in conflict with robust systems, choosing Rust, and the benefits of Oxide Computer's rack scale approach.

This is an extended version of an interview posted on Software Engineering Radio.

Transcript available here

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