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Systems Software in the Large
Software is hard (yes, even in an era of
vibe
coding), and systems software — the silent engine room...
18th Sep 2025
Software is hard (yes, even in an era of
vibe
coding), and systems software — the silent engine room of modern
infrastructure — is especially so. By design, systems software provides an
abstraction for programs, insulating programmers from the filthy details that
lie beneath;...
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Our $100M Series B
We don’t want to bury the lede: we have raised a $100M Series B, led by a new
strategic partner in...
30th Jul 2025
We don’t want to bury the lede: we have raised a $100M Series B, led by a new
strategic partner in USIT with participation from all
existing Oxide investors. To put that number in perspective: over the nearly
six year lifetime of the company, we have raised $89M; our $100M...
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Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?
How it started
Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23
employees),...
1st May 2025
How it started
Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23
employees), and we knew that we needed many more people to execute on our
audacious vision. While we had
had success hiring in our personal networks, those networks now felt tapped;
we needed...
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dtrace.conf(24)
Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference.
Or really, more of a meetup; from the...
5th Dec 2024
Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference.
Or really, more of a meetup; from the primordial e-mail I sent:
The goal here, by the way, is not a DTrace user group, but more of a
face-to-face meeting with people actively involved in DTrace — either by
porting...
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How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that...
8th Nov 2024
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that percentage will likely rise to 3-4% by the end of the decade. According to Goldman Sachs research, that rise will include a doubling in data center carbon dioxide emissions. As the...
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Reflections on Founder Mode
Paul Graham’s Founder
Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason
that...
2nd Sep 2024
Paul Graham’s Founder
Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason
that "founder mode" will surely enter the lexicon (and as Graham grimly
predicts: "as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people
will start misusing it"). When...
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Engineering a culture
We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine:
we had a bug — a...
31st Mar 2024
We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine:
we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting
it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this particular issue
was something of an Oxide object lesson, representative not...
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Moore's Scofflaws
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity."
This was of course...
20th Feb 2024
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity."
This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its
competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years
will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
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A Gap in the TrustZone preset settings for the LPC55S69
We’re very excited to have announced
the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this...
20th Nov 2023
We’re very excited to have announced
the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this work, we
continue to build on top of the LPC55S69 from NXP as our Root of Trust. We’ve
discovered some gaps when using TrustZone preset settings on the LPC55S69 that
can allow for...
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The Cloud Computer
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first
commercial cloud computer —...
26th Oct 2023
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first
commercial cloud computer — along with
our $44M Series A financing.
From the outset at Oxide, and as I outlined in
my 2020 Stanford talk,
we have had three core beliefs as a company:
Cloud computing is the...
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