Bryan Cantrill

Our $200M Series C oxide.computer/blog/our-200m-…

Bryan Cantrill ( @bcantrill ) was a distinguished engineer at the original Sun Microsystems and has now founded Oxide Computer Company ( @oxidecomputer ). We discussed everything he learned through the booms and busts in his career: • Why focusing on promotions is bad • Stories competing with Jeff Bezos • Living through the dot-com crash • Stack ranking and layoff patterns from before • The story behind starting his own company He was gracious in letting me grill him about his past and in sharing interesting perspectives from the experiences he lived through You can watch the full episode here: • YouTube: youtu.be/qhSL-5GtmQM • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7jFM4Q… • Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… • Transcript: developing.dev/p/distinguishe…

We’re so lucky we didn’t listen to all the people who told us to be SaaS—almost everyone "smart" btw

congrats to the @oxidecomputer team on the raise, but more impressive than that, congrats on selling a bunch of racks oxide.computer/blog/our-200m-…

@xuezhao I think we can all agree to blame @villi! 😉

@bcantrill I clearly messed up!

Our $200M Series C oxide.computer/blog/our-200m-…

@xuezhao Thank you, Lan! Wish you were on our cap table! 😉

@bcantrill Congrats Bryan!!

@anujsaharan_ Much more!

@bcantrill congrats! does this mean more computer?

@PLT_cheater No, we don't -- in part because we don't have any general work to do. (That is, it's all specific at some level.) We write our job descriptions very deliberately though, so you can use them to find a fit.

@bcantrill saw some of your stuff and considered applying to work for you guys, I know I can contribute but there isn't an exact role that would fit - do you guys take general applications?

@bcantrill makes a good case for why the world needs to eat more software. The layers of emulation and hidden firmware in the innards of our servers is approaching Vernor Vinge levels of archeology!

This was a super fun talk by @bcantrill. The first half in particular has a lot of great hot takes! youtu.be/v0JjG0Qfwi8?si…

Pimco's Libby Cantrill says the US dollar is still dominant and serves as the world's reserve currency. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index hit a new session low on Tuesday, falling as much as 1.2%, as the US currency weakened against all of its major counterparts bloom.bg/4sUReVE

I don’t really know about marc but remember the wisdom of the sages:

the most detailed account I've seen of the incident. if you are still defending this, i'm not sure you will ever come back in touch with reality.

There is far more outrage from tech leaders over a wealth tax than masked ICE agents terrorizing communities and executing civilians in the streets. Tells you what you need to know about the values of our industry.

One of my favorite people in tech is @bcantrill and he wrote one of the most thoughtful essays about LLMs I've read in the last two years: rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576

What was the Dotcom Boom like? Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill - cofounder and CTO at Oxide): "One of early my life lessons: that boom will go on longer than you think possible, and when it switches, it will collapse faster than you can fathom."

How have servers and the cloud evolved in the last 30 years, and what might be next? Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) has been at the thick of the industry since the Dotcom Boom and Bust, and shares fascinating stories from both this time; on how AWS was born; why Kubernetes was key for GCP to gain ground, and why they're building a completely custom server rack computer at Oxide Computer Company. Bryan is one of my all-time favorite people to talk with - don't miss this one. Teaser - he talked about how Jeff Bezos tricked almost everyone in tech to believe that the cloud was a terrible business, and how Oracle (yes, Oracle!) taught him something extremely valuable he uses to this date: • YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=Kn_P9n… • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5VcMGm… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… Thanks to our wonderful season sponsors: •⁠ @statsig  ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Check it out: statsig.com/pragmatic •⁠ @linear  ⁠ — ⁠ The system for modern product development. They now support AI agents and you can also build your own - see how: linear.app/integrations/a…

Thrilled to be running Finance at @oxidecomputer! Thank you @sdtuck & @bcantrill for the opportunity. Oxide has 15 open positions right now with more on the way. Come build the future with us!

@DALLASBRADEN209 Just remember that you also there for a moment in A's history that won't be featured: June 13th, 2023

The new A’s Ballpark Experience center opened up & I got the chance to jump in the “Green & Gold Time Machine”. With a tap of the bat on home plate you can teleport back to tons of awesome moments in A’s history. I may or may not be partial to one particular moment 😉

@urandomd bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/29/the…

@bcantrill Oh, I see. He moved the team. As you were.

As I have said before: the incompetence of John Fisher knows no scope or bounds. Listen to this titanic dumbass starting at ~3:20 in which he describes the magic of baseball as... a popup that gets lost in the sun?! WTAF?!