# The Tale of Reverso

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Podcast: [Oxide and Friends](https://stenobird.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends-5250129)
Published: 2026-05-16T14:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/ada46428
Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/ada46428/e306ac3b.mp3
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Duration seconds: 4016

## Resource

Oxide ships a rack scale system--how to test the manufacturing of the backplane and switches? Previously we've been using a collection of sacrificial servers, but this was unwieldy, expensive, and unscalable--all big problems as we ramp up manufacturing to 100s a month! Enter "Reverso", an extremely simple test fixture, that uncovered an extremely complex bug. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers included Oxide colleagues, Robert "RFK" Keith , Adam "The Hammer" Suczewski, and Matt Keeter . Previously, on Oxide and Friends: OxF s01e26 - The Pragmatism of Hubris OxF s01e24 - The Sidecar Switch OxF s03e13 - The Network Behind the Network OxF s05e23 - Adventures in Data Corruption Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Adam Leventhal, Hardware Engineer dendrite Paddle-to-the-Sea PRs needed! If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar . We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

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