Bringing the cloud on prem

Adam was out when Bryan made his podcast debut here on The Changelog, so we had to get him back on the show along with his co-founder and CEO Steve Tuck to discuss Silicon Valley (the TV show), all things Oxide, homelab possibilities, bringing the power of the cloud on prem, and more.

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Featuring:

• Bryan Cantrill – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Steve Tuck – Twitter, LinkedIn
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Crate tui
• On the Metal with Jeff Rothschild
• Oxide specs
• The Changelog #496: Oxide builds servers (as they should be)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Let's talk!
(00:38) - Is this Oxide & Friends?
(01:12) - Last time we talked...
(02:39) - Silicon Valley
(11:12) - Oxide sold a box
(13:54) - Awesome design
(16:55) - Oxide's heist team
(17:39) - Is this your rack?
(18:20) - Homelab Oxide edition
(19:33) - Oxide's enthusiast audience
(23:34) - Would you consider "The Homecloud"
(24:29) - Throw us a bone
(25:58) - Give me a simplified Oxide rack
(28:02) - Know what you're saying no to
(29:53) - Far into the future
(31:03) - The 2050 roadmap
(38:59) - What's wrong with the switch?
(41:15) - How different is an Oxide rack?
(43:34) - Powered and provisioned same day
(47:43) - Take the Homelab out of the DC
(49:38) - The first boot
(51:59) - Customer demos
(54:53) - Back to the bootup
(59:36) - How did you know?
(1:13:11) - On-site with a customer
(1:13:50) - On prem vs cloud
(1:18:50) - Where's the secret?
(1:22:12) - We all pod? Nah...
(1:35:21) - Bye friends!
(1:36:20) - Wrapping up

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