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SE Radio 709: Bryan Cantrill on the Data Center Control Plane

SE Radio 709: Bryan Cantrill on the Data Center Control Plane

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers vor 6 Monaten

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Bryan Cantrill, the co-founder and CTO of Oxide
Computer company, speaks with host Jeremy Jung about challenges
in deploying hardware on-premises at scale. They discuss the
difficulty of building up Samsung data centers with off-the-shelf
hardware, how vendors silently replace components that cause
performance problems, and why AWS and Google build their own
hardware. Bryan describes the security vulnerabilities and poor
practices built into many baseboard management controllers, the
purpose of a control plane, and his experiences building one in
NodeJS while struggling with the runtime's future during his time
at Joyent. He explains why Oxide chose to use Rust for its
control plane and the OpenSolaris-based Illumos as the operating
system for their vertically integrated rack-scale hardware, which
is designed to help address a number of these key challenges.

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