What happens when the Oxide API is slow? A podcast episode! More specifically, one about how the team employed all manner of debugging techniques to track it down to one obscure and configurable async runtime feature! Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the team to talk about that journey and the tools we used (and made!) along the way.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Dave Pacheco, Eliza Weisman, and Augustus Mayo.

Previous episodes mentioned:

• Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries
• The Saga of Sagas
• DTrace at 20
• Cultural Idiosyncrasies
• Mr. Nagle’s Wild Ride
• A Debugging Odyssey
• RTO or GTFO

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Falling in Love with Rust
• Tokio Runtime Builder – disable_lifo_slot
• magic‑trace (GitHub)
• Magic Trace podcast episode from Jane Street
• diesel‑dtrace (GitHub)
• omicron issue comment
• qorb
• statemap
• tokio‑dtrace
• tokio issue #7411
• Visualizing Systems with Statemaps
• PostgreSQL WAL INIT ZERO
• Statemaps: Visualizing System Behavior (YouTube)

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

On the heels of Bryan's blog post about the similarities between aspiring college athletes finding a team and entrepreneurs raising a round of capital, Bryan and Adam were joined by Robert Bogart to discuss his own experiences with both--and the life lesson accrued along the way.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Robert Bogart.
College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe

• OxF: Debugger‑Driven Development
• Anthony Ervin – Wikipedia
• Eddie Reese – Wikipedia
• Metaweb – Wikipedia

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Building systems software can be quite opaque, leading to the need for great debugging tools. At Oxide, we've found that debuggers can be even more valuable leading rather than following system development. Bryan and Adam talk with Oxide colleagues about how domain specific debugging tools help us build systems not only more robustly, but faster as well.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Dave Pacheco. John Gallagher, Alan Hanson, and Eliza Weisman.

Previous episodes mentioned:

• OxF: AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik
• OxF: The Saga of Sagas
• OxF: A Crate is Born
• OxF: The Network Behind the Network
• OxF: Bringing up Cosmo
• OxF: RIP USENIX ATC
• OxF: Dijkstra’s Tweetstorm

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• omdb ground rules

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Last week, our colleague (and frequent Oxide and Friends guest) Steve Klabnik made some new friends on the Internet with a blog entry on AI discourse. Bryan and Adam were joined by Steve to try to de-polarize the discussion a little.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Steve Klabnik, and valued listener, Julian Giamblanco (aka "Oatmealdealer").

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Steve's blog post: I am disappointed in the AI discourse
• OxF: A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel (The Ballers)
• OxF: Adversarial Machine Learning with Nicholas Carlini
• OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz ("the RFD 3 podcast episode")
• OxF: AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras
• OxF: Reflecting on Founder Mode ("ego con")

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Late in 2024, an economics paper captured the attention of the world. AI, it claimed, had a tremendous impact on materials research, disproportionally benefitted the most productive, and--sadly--reduced job statisfaction. It now appears that the results are entirely fabricated! Ben Shindel joins Bryan and Adam to discuss.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Ben Shindel.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Ben's blog: AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
• OxF: Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud
• Topic
• [@M:SS](link into recording) Leventhal's Conundrum
• PRs needed!

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Matthew Sanabria joins Bryan and Adam to talk about his role at Oxide--Solutions Software Engineer--and how it fits in with engineering, sales, support and marketing. It takes everyone in Busytown! Sound good? Apply!

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Matthew Sanabria.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Solutiuons Software Engineer application
• OxF: the "squeezefish" episode
• The Fallthrough podcast
• Busytown

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Last week the kerfuffle between Synadia and CNCF, tussling over the ownership and futures of NATS, bled into the public. The outcome may cast a long shadow for open source and for the CNCF. Bryan and Adam were joined by Rachel Stephens and Adam Jacob to discuss how we got here and possible outcomes.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Rachel Stephens Adam Jacob, and Eliza Weisman.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Goats in sweaters
• CNCF Slide: Why You Should Host Your Project at CNCF
• CNCF NATS documents
• NATS GitHub discussion
  • The uncashed $10k check
• CNCF landscape
• CNCF blog on NATS / Synadia
• Synadia response to the CNCF

Postscript:

The CNCF updated its blog with proof that the ACH transfer of $10,000 was completed [still very funny! -ahl].

Derek Collison--as reported by Runtime News--has agreed to transfer the NATS trademark to the CNCF "because we just feel that the damage to the ecosystem and the ugliness is not worth it for anyone."

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!