{"podcast":{"title":"Oxide and Friends","slug":"oxide-and-friends-5250129","podcast_index_feed_id":5250129,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/oxide-and-friends","website_url":"http://oxide.computer","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UtYPOoynx5qRUFIf_OA3ANFHiVD8uqC9CN7hxFyGk3U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OGI3/NjA5NWY4Yjc4NzE0/ZGI5ZmMzZmY4MjFi/YThiYy5wbmc.jpg","author":"Oxide Computer Company","episode_count":181,"summary":"Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB Subscribe to our calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T18:18:11.053538+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends-5250129"},"episode":{"title":"The Tale of Reverso","slug":"the-tale-of-reverso","published_at":"2026-05-16T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends-5250129/the-tale-of-reverso","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends-5250129","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/ada46428","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/ada46428/e306ac3b.mp3","summary":"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!","meta_description":"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 serv…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4016,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/oxide-and-friends-5250129/episodes/the-tale-of-reverso/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends-5250129/the-tale-of-reverso.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}