Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer
by cashsterling on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:56PM
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Back in the day... Sun Micro was a GOAT and pushed the envelope on Unix computing 20-30 years ago. Solaris was stable and high performing.
I don't run on-prem clusters or clouds but know a couple people who do and, at large enough scale, it is a constant "fuck-shit-stack on top of itself" (to quote Reggie Watts). There is almost always something wrong and some people upset about it.
The promise of a fully integrated system (compute HW, network HW, all firmware/drivers written by experts using Rust wherever possible) that pays attention to optimizing all your OpEx metrics is a big deal.
It may take Oxide a couple more years to really break into the market in a big way, but if they can stick it out, they will do very well.
I don't run on-prem clusters or clouds but know a couple people who do and, at large enough scale, it is a constant "fuck-shit-stack on top of itself" (to quote Reggie Watts). There is almost always something wrong and some people upset about it.
The promise of a fully integrated system (compute HW, network HW, all firmware/drivers written by experts using Rust wherever possible) that pays attention to optimizing all your OpEx metrics is a big deal.
It may take Oxide a couple more years to really break into the market in a big way, but if they can stick it out, they will do very well.