[prrls]

Oxide Computer Company

https://oxide.computer/

“True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.”

Corey Quinn interviewed the founders on his podcast "Screaming in the Cloud", where they explain the need for innovation in that space.

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...

Basically, on-premises hardware is years behind what companies like Facebook and Google have in-house, it may be time to close that gap.

They also have a podcast, "On The Metal", which is such a joy to listen to. Their last episode with Jonathan Blow was really a treat.

https://oxide.computer/podcast/

It's mostly anecdotes about programming for the hardware-software interface, if that's your thing ;).

[prrls]

And for people wondering why caring about on-premises hosting when you have the cloud, a few weeks ago there was a thread about why would you do the former in favor of the latter. It puts on display that actually a lot of people are still on-premises, and for good reasons, which makes a good case for a company like Oxide to exist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089999

[input_sh]

Also see this meta comment which summed up other top-level comments by their arguments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098654

8/10 is cost related.

[carterklein13]

Wow, I had never heard of Oxide before this. I work at a huge company that is nearly finished their cloud transformation, which was frankly largely a way to differentiate themselves form their competition more than anything, and a huge cost sink.

This probably would've accomplished the same goal, with a lot less overhead.

[kimburgess]

I’d second that podcast recommendation. The episode with Jon Masters is an incredible conversation.