Oxide and Friends

RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide


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RFDs--Requests for Discussion--are how we at Oxide discuss... just about everything! Technical design, hardware component selection, changes in process, culture, interview systems, (even) chat--we have RFDs for all of these, over 500 in a bit under 5 years. Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleagues instrumental to RFDs, from their most prolific author to those making them more consumable.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Robert Mustacchi, David Crespo, Ben Leonard, and Augustus Mayo.


Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

  • We're sorry, Germany
  • Oxide RFD site
  • RFD 1: Requests for Discussion
  • A Tool for Discussion (Oxide blog post from Ben)
  • Sun PSARC cases
  • The Queen's Duck
  • The Hairy Arm
  • Joyent RFDs
  • RFC-3
  • AsciiDoc
  • Joyent RFD 77
  • OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz
  • Oxide RFD API
  • ... with it's CLI generated by progenitor
  • ... which we talked about some on OxF here and here
  • "Own your strategic weirdness"
  • RFD 113: Engineering Determination, or how we close out RFDs

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. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

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