The Tale of Reverso

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 (bsky.app/profile/bcantrill.bsky.social) and Adam Leventhal (bsky.app/profile/ahl.bsky.social), speakers included Oxide colleagues, Robert "RFK" Keith (mastodon.social/@refugeesus), Adam "The Hammer" Suczewski, and Matt Keeter (bsky.app/profile/mattkeeter.com).
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
• OxF s01e26 - The Pragmatism of Hubris (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-p…)
• OxF s01e24 - The Sidecar Switch (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-s…)
• OxF s03e13 - The Network Behind the Network (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-n…)
• OxF s05e23 - Adventures in Data Corruption (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/adven…)
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
• Adam Leventhal, Hardware Engineer (ahl.dtrace.org/2012/02/12/hardware-engineer)
• github.com/oxidecomputer/dendrite
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 (calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f418…). We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!