4 articles that week
Oxide Computer, Thursday, January 8th, 2026
Time for the annual predictions episode! Bryan and Adam were joined by frequent future-ologists Simon Willison, Steve Klabnik, and Ian Grunert to review past predictions and peer into the future.
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The Pragmatic Engineer, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
How have servers and the cloud evolved in the last 30 years, and what might be next? Bryan Cantrill was a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems during both the Dotcom Boom and the Dotcom Bust. Today, he is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer, where he works on modern server infrastructure.
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The New Stack, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
By introducing a vendor-neutral orchestration layer, Kubernetes shattered the "API lock-in" that once made AWS's market dominance appear insurmountable.
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Oxide Computer, Tuesday, January 6th, 2026
Software is hard (yes, even in an era of vibe coding), and systems software - the silent engine room of modern infrastructure - is especially so. By design, systems software provides an abstraction for programs, insulating programmers from the filthy details that lie beneath; piercing that abstraction to implement the underlying system is to embrace those details and their gnarly implications.
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