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Sharpening the Axe: The Primacy of Toolmaking

Oxide’s Bryan Cantrill weighs in on allowing engineers to make their own tools, resulting in better systems delivered faster and with greater confidence.

30 minutes
Bryan Cantrill

Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Oxide Computer Company

Bryan Cantrill is a software engineer who has spent a quarter of a century at the hardware/software interface. He is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, which is endeavoring to build a rack-scale computer for the post-cloud era. Prior to Oxide he spent nearly a decade at Joyent, a cloud computing pioneer; prior to Joyent, he spent fourteen years at Sun Microsystems, a now-defunct computer company that Bryan's nine-year-old daughter apparently thought was a brewery.