George Cozma of Chips and Cheese joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about AMD's new 5th generation EPYC processor, codename: Turin. What's new in Turin and how is Oxide's Turin-based platform coming along?

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest George Cozma, as well as Oxide colleagues Robert Mustacchi, Eric Aasen, Nathanael Huffman, and the quietly observant Aaron Hartwig.

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

• Chips and Cheese: AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched
• End of the Road: An Anandtech Farewell
• Centaur Technology
• AVX-512
• Zen5's AVX512 Teardown + More...
• Thermal Power Design (TDP)
• OxF: Rack Scale Networking (use of p4)
• P4
• AGESA
• OxF: The Network Behind the Network (Oxide server recovery)
• openSIL
• phoronix: openSIL
• PCB backdrilling
• OxF: AMD's MI300 (APUs)
• dtrace.conf(24) -- The DTrace unconference, December 11th, 2024

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Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleague, Ben Naecker, to talk about OxQL--the Oxide Query Language we've developed for interacting with our metrics system. Yes, another query language, and, yes, we're DSL maximalists, but listen in before you accuse us of simple NIH!

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Oxide colleague, Ben Naecker.

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

• RFD 463: The Oxide Query Language
• GenAI podcast on the OxQL RFD
• RFD 125: Telemetry requirements and building blocks
• InfluxDB
• ClickHouse
• Simon Willison: SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL
• Oxide CLI timeseries docs
• Oxide CLI timeseries dashboard code
• OxQL source code
• Rust peg crate
• Gorilla
• Clickhouse paper
• OxF: Whither CockroachDB?
• ANTLR
• ACM Queue 2009: Purpose Built Languages

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With Amazon's return to office (RTO) mandate in the news, Bryan and Adam revisit the topic (it's been 2.5 years since last time!). Are in-office epiphanies real or is RTO fueled by nostalgia, fear... and finance? Stay tuned / we apologize for the exposition on in-office games.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included friend of the pod, Matt Amdur, and Chris.

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

• Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Strengthening our culture and teams
• OxF: The Future of Work
• Amazon leadership principles
• Nathanael's blog: Building Big Systems with Remote Hardware Teams

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With some time passed, Bryan and Adam offer a non-hot take on Paul Graham's "Founder Mode" post. While there is plenty to quibble over, there's also the kernel of an important idea: how to balance experience, novel thinking, and limited time? Also stay tuned as they share a years old "ego con".

Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.

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

• Paul Graham Founder Mode
• Bryan Reflecting on Founder Mode
• Tim O'Reilly How I Failed
• Camille Fournier Founder Create Managers
• Bryan Chesky interview we mention
• OxF: on Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing
• Seagull Management
• How to Castrate a Bull NOT AN ENDORSEMENT; DO NOT READ
• The ego con: Non-Stop Hitz

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RFDs--Requests for Discussion--are how we at Oxide discuss... just about everything! Technical design, hardware component selection, changes in process, culture, interview systems, (even) chat--we have RFDs for all of these, over 500 in a bit under 5 years. Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleagues instrumental to RFDs, from their most prolific author to those making them more consumable.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Robert Mustacchi, David Crespo, Ben Leonard, and Augustus Mayo.

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

• We're sorry, Germany
• Oxide RFD site
• RFD 1: Requests for Discussion
• A Tool for Discussion (Oxide blog post from Ben)
• Sun PSARC cases
• The Queen's Duck
• The Hairy Arm
• Joyent RFDs
• RFC-3
• AsciiDoc
• Joyent RFD 77
• OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz
• Oxide RFD API
• ... with it's CLI generated by progenitor
• ... which we talked about some on OxF here and here
• "Own your strategic weirdness"
• RFD 113: Engineering Determination, or how we close out RFDs

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Lots of engineering decisions get made on vibes. Popularity, anecdotes—they can lead to expedient decisions rather than rigorous ones. At Oxide, our choice to go with CockroachDB was hardly hasty! Dave Pacheco joins Bryan and Adam to talk about why we choose CRDB… and how Cockroach Lab’s recent switch to a proprietary license impacts that.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Dave Pacheco.

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

• TechCrunch: Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay
• Kelsey's Tweet
• Oxide RFD 53: Control plane data storage requirements
• Oxide RFD 110: CockroachDB for the control plane database
• Oxide RFD 508: Whither CockroachDB
• Joyent blog post on the outage due to postgres autovacuum
• Jepsen
• Dave's CRDB exploration repo
• Chrony
• OxF: A Debugging Odyssey -- debugging an issue that manifested in CRDB
• The Liberation of RethinkDB

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The Oxide control plane coordinates multiple services to do complex, compound operations. Early on, we knew we wanted to provide a robust structure for these multi-part workflows. We stumbled onto Distributed Sagas and built our own implementation in Steno. Bryan and Adam are joined by several members of the Oxide team who built and use Steno to drive the complex operation of the control plane.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Dave Pacheco. Eliza Weisman, Andrew Stone, Greg Colombo, and James MacMahon.

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

• Distributed Sagas: A Protocol for Coordinating Microservices - Caitie McCaffrey
• Oxide RFD 107: Workflows Engine
• Steno
• chat: "the trouble with other people's workflow engines, somehow with all the yaml in the world they're never quite extensible enough"
• Not our first bit of background noise on OxF (trombone)
• SAGAS paper
• chat: "when i hear sagas i think "transaction semantics enforced at the application layer" and when i hear workflow i hear "a dsl that doesn't have a for loop""
• Automated saga testing
• Oxide RFD 289: Steno Upgrade
• Feral Concurrency Control paper from Berkeley and the University of Sydney
• Eliza's PR
• Steno's description of its divergence from Distributed Sagas
• AWS "constant work" blog
• chat: "Now, migrate the owl."
• OxF on formal methods
• A complex bug with sagas: "tl;dr there's TWENTY steps in 5042 that leads to an accounting bug"
• Oxide RFD 373: Reliable Persistent Workflows
• Eliza's novella on updating an instance

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Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his terrific blog post on his many pragmatic uses of LLMs to solve real problems. He has great advice about when to use them (often!) and what kinds of problems they handle well. LLMs aren't great at many things, but used well they can be an amazing tool.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Nicholas Carlini as well as by listeners Mike Cafarella, p5commit, and chrisbur.

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

• Nicholas' blog: How I Use "AI"
• The McLaughlin Group
• Surge 2011 ~ Closing Plenary ~ Theo Schlossnagle
• Microsoft's Tay chatbot
• Curb Your Enthusiasm: Larry vs. Siri
• Sal Khan on LLMs
• Google's awful AI ad
• Google pulls ad

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