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Re:Oxide Computers: Building Big Systems with Remote Hardwar... by c_o_n_v_e_x on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @10:08PM (#35077904)
Love their hardware prototyping strategy. Unit testing makes so much sense, but I've rarely seen it done in hardware.

I'm curious how big their hardware team is?

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Re:Oxide Computers: Building Big Systems with Remote Hardwar... by mkeeter on Thursday March 09, 2023 @09:24AM (#35081456)
The official hardware team is about 10 people, but there's another 5-10 people that somewhat overlap.

Several of the boards discussed in the post were designed by people that are nominally on the embedded team, e.g. I designed the Gimletlet NIC and Root-of-Trust-Carrier-Carrier.

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Re:Oxide Computers: Building Big Systems with Remote Hardwar... by syntheticgate on Thursday March 09, 2023 @10:13AM (#35082002)
Author here. One thing I really enjoy about this team is that we're trying to avoid silos and build a cohesive team that can flex when needed. As Matt mentioned, a number of the boards discussed are a result of someone jumping in and helping where there was a need. The Gemini bring-up board was done before we even had an "official" hardware team.
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