omicron
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3 days ago | 9 days ago | |
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omicron
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My favourite Git commit (2019)
> On my work I make 1-15 commits a day. If I have to spend thought cycles on the commit message, that is time that goes from other productive endeavours.
I make roughly that many commits a day as well. If something's easy to understand I'll put in a simple commit message (e.g. [1]), but I do put in the effort for more complicated ones.
[1] https://github.com/nextest-rs/nextest/commit/efd194b2e1d8d61...
[2] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/commit/b07a8f593325...
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Oxide Computer releases distribution of illumos intended to power the Oxide Rack
> I also wonder if internally Linux is used for development of the platform itself
Developers at Oxide work on whatever platform they'd like. I will say I am in the minority as a Windows user though, most are on some form of Unix.
> so they can create "virtual" racks to dogfood the product without full blown physical racks.
So one of the reasons why Rust is such an advantage for us is its strong cross-platform support: you can run a simulated version of the control plane on Mac, Linux, and Illumos, without a physical rack. The non-simulated version must run on Helios. [1]
That said we do have a rack in the office (literally named dogfood) that employees can use for various things if they wish.
1: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron?tab=readme-ov-file#...
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Oxide: The Cloud Computer
> I think the question is how well they can do the management plane.
Docs:
* https://docs.oxide.computer/api/guides/responses
See perhaps "This repo houses the work-in-progress Oxide Rack control plane."
* https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron
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OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
When we started the company, we knew it would be a three year build -- and indeed, our first product is in the final stages of development (i.e. EMC/safety certification). We have been very transparent about our progress along the way[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7] -- and our software is essentially all open source, so you can follow along there as well.[8][9][10]
If you are asking "does anyone want a rack-scale computer?" the (short) answer is: yes, they do. The on-prem market has been woefully underserved -- and there are plenty of folks who are sick of Dell/HPE/VMware/Cisco, to say nothing of those who are public cloud borne and wondering if they should perhaps own some of their own compute rather than rent it all.
[0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/holistic-bo...
[1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-oxide-s...
[2] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/bringup-lab...
[3] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/more-tales-...
[4] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/another-lpc...
[5] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmat...
[6] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-...
[7] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-sidecar...
[8] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron
[9] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis
[10] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris
- CockroachDB crashed in Go runtime during test run: s.allocCount = s.nelems
- Debugging CockroachDB crash in Go runtime during test run
- Oxide Builds Servers
- Apparent CockroachDB data corruption due to CockroachDB issue 74475
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Hubris – An OS from Oxide Computer
Speaking of interesting names, their control plane is called Omicron: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron
oxide-and-friends
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Persistent Democracy: a better way to govern foundations and open source projects?
After listening to the Oxide and Friends episode about the Rust trademark dustup I thought some people in the Rust community might be interested in a concept I've been working on for a while called Persistent Democracy.
- Oxide and Friends: Predictions 2023
- Predictions 2022
- Oxide Builds Servers
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Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
They've been doing Twitter Spaces for several months now, with recordings and show notes here: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces Disclosure: I was the main speaker on one of their spaces.
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Apple and NeXT, 25 Years Ago this week
For anyone interested in the history of NeXT, I highly recommend Randall Stross's "Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing."[0] (And I regret that I may have personally had some role in the current outsized prices of used copies -- my apologies!) We also had a really interesting Twitter Spaces discussion of both the book -- and on NeXT more generally.[1]
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/226316.Steve_Jobs_the...
[1] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces/blob/master/...
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Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility
Also, where are my manners?! Really glad you're enjoying our Twitter Spaces[0] -- and thank you for the kind words!
[0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces
- Rust, Wright's Law, and the Future of Low-Latency Systems
What are some alternatives?
hubris - A lightweight, memory-protected, message-passing kernel for deeply embedded systems.
fontdue - The fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust.
terraform-provider-oxide - Oxide Terraform provider
headcrab - A modern Rust debugging library 🦀
propolis - VMM userspace for illumos bhyve
hubris - A dependently typed programming language, and verification tool
git-subrepo
manta - Manta is a scalable HTTP-based object store
ferros - A Rust-based userland which also adds compile-time assurances to seL4 development.
xous-core - The Xous microkernel
third-party-api-clients - A place for keeping all our generated third party API clients.
smoltcp - a smol tcp/ip stack