Adventures in Data Corruption

Oxide and Friends · Jul 10, 2025 · 1h 43m · transcript

Two years ago, the Oxide team encountered data corruption during a fairly simple network data transfer. The ensuing debugging sessions uncovered a truly bizarre bug involving CPU speculation! Bryan and Adam were joined by colleagues John and Rain to discuss the discovery and circuitous hunt to track down the bug.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included John Gallagher, and Rain Paharia.

Previous episodes mentioned:

OxF s03e09 - Get You a State Machine for Great Good

OxF s03e20 - Shipping the first Oxide rack: Tales from Manufacturing

OxF s04e25 - RTO or GTFO

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