The goal is that you can email Oxide and they'll be able fix it regardless of where it is in the stack, even down to the processor ROM.
(no affiliation, just a fan)
I've read and understood from Joyent and SmartOS that they believe fault tolerant block devices / filesystems is the wrong abstraction, your software should handle losing storage.
What would you classify Shopify as?
> One existing Oxide user is e-commerce giant Shopify, which indicates the growth potential for the systems available.
* https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/07/04/oxide-ships-first-clou...
Their CEO has tweeted about it:
* https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1793798092212367669
> Who writes the security mitigations for speculative execution bugs? Who patches CVEs in the shipped software which doesn't use Rust?
Oxide.
This is all a pre-canned solution: just use the API like you would an off-prem cloud. Do you worry about AWS patching stuff? And how many people purchasing 'traditional' servers from Dell/HPe/Lenovo worry about patching links like the LOM?
Further, all of Oxide's stuff is on Github, so you're in better shape for old stuff, whereas if the traditional server vendors EO(S)L something firmware-wise you have no recourse.
A big part of what we're offering our customers is the promise that there's one vendor who's responsible for everything in the rack. We want to be the responsible party for all the software we ship, whether it's firmware, the host operating system, the hypervisor, and everything else. Arguably, the promise that there's one vendor you can yell at for everything is a more important differentiator for us than any particular technical aspect of our hardware or software.
Our early customers include government, finance, and places like Shopify.
You’re not wrong that some places may prefer older companies but that doesn’t mean they all do.
Illumos is not really directly relevant to the customer, it’s a non user facing implementation detail.
We provide security updates.
>We learned that Oxide has so far shipped “under 20 racks,” which illustrates the selective markets its powerful systems are aimed at.
>B&F understands most of those systems were deployed as single units at customer sites. Therefore, Oxide hopes these and new customers will scale up their operations in response to positive outcomes.
Yikes. If they sold 20 racks in July, how many are they up to now?