Is Oxide Computer Company Reinventing the Wheel? | Nathanael Huffman

Nathanael Huffman details Oxide's focus on owning the entire compute stack, and explains why providing excellent support to their customers requires a deep understanding of all hardware and software components in the rack. He also recounts an incredible story of picking up Oxide's early servers in the parking lot of a cheese store in Wisconsin.
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[@jasonleschnik9780]

Years of abstraction and poorly designed firmware to "get the job done" have accumulated an enormous amount of technical debt. This feels like a really refreshing approach, "Clean slate Cloud" with a hint of Bryan wanting a similar visibility in Hardware that DTrace afforded software. Bravo.

[@Dygear]

No, they are putting a racing slick on it tho.

[@MichaelKahle]

Nice interview. I'd be interested to know WHAT parts of the Oxide stack are they not able to get support and code from the vendor. What incentive does a hardware manufacturer have to keep their drivers closed source?

[@THB192]

On their podcast they've said they don't own the PSP, and they've said they also don't own the firmware on some of the power supply parts. Probably some other stuff, too. I'm pretty sure there is no open FTL layer on any SSDs, so that's probably also closed off.