Oxide Computer Company

I cannot tell you how stoked we at Oxide Computer Company are to be partnering with the Oakland Ballers! We are kindred spirits: East Bay-borne innovators always willing to experiment or otherwise challenge the status quo. And if you are our kind of nerd -- a baseball nerd, a computer nerd, or both -- sign up to join us on Saturday for our first Hack the Diamond hackathon! We will have Oxide folks on hand, including former professional athletes (and current computer nerds!) Zoltan Mesko and Justin Baum. Other Oxide nerds of note who may be sighted during the day include Adam Leventhal, David Pacheco, and Elliott Donlon. Bring your enthusiasm, your creative ideas, and your laptop -- and let's see what we can hack together!

Keith's new fourth cloud model highlights one of Oxide's biggest strengths, you remain in control and the cloud boundary is clearly defined. No one can actually run VMware, Red Hat, or Nutanix alone, they don't include the underlying compute, storage, and network infrastructure. Similarly, many customers don't run only Oxide, because we've drawn a clear boundary at the VM layer, containers and additional services are added on top. Our case study with SUSE and Switch is a great example- Oxide provides best in class infrastructure with co-designed hardware and software that when combined with Rancher creates a fourth cloud that keeps you in the driver's seat and smooths out the typical pain points of legacy commodity servers, storage, and networking gear that were never designed to run a cloud. Similarly, OpenShift or custom cloud control planes are excellent choices to run on Oxide thanks to our open source, secure, and well-documented platform. Think of Oxide as shaped like EC2, EBS, and VPC but open-source, on-prem, with the best hardware you've ever had access to, and fully under your control. Your platform team starts day one on a substrate that's already API-driven end to end, instead of assembling and supporting your own, it's your team's massive head start and advantage over the field.

External subnets are here! Bind directly to external IPs from inside your Oxide Computer Company instances. This unlocks new networking patterns — including one Kubernetes users will care about. Previously, external IPs allowed instances to be reachable from outside their VPC, but those IPs were transparent to the guest OS. That meant applications inside the instance couldn’t bind directly to them. With external subnets, an instance can see and bind to addresses from an attached external subnet just like any other interface address. Use cases this enables: - Multiple external load balancer endpoints. - Skipping the Kubernetes overlay network. - Binding the same port on different external IP addresses. See it in action in the video below.

Why use Oxide instead of the public cloud? FAQ Friday #48

Two of my biggest passions, sports and technology, are coming together in the best possible way. On June 13, the Oakland Ballers and Oxide Computer Company are coming together to host Hack the Diamond, a hackathon focused on building tools that expand access to baseball technology for everyone. Technology shouldn't just be available at the highest levels of the game or for those with the right resources. This hackathon's goal is to bring builders together to explore ideas that can make baseball technology more accessible and useful for players, families, teams, coaches and communities — everyone. If you live in the Bay and this is your lane, we’d love to have you join us.