Debugger-Driven Development

Oxide and Friends

• Episode: Debugger-Driven Development
• Website: Oxide and Friends
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• Duration: 01:34:49
• Published: 2025-06-16 16:00

Building systems software can be quite opaque, leading to the need for great debugging tools. At Oxide, we've found that debuggers can be even more valuable leading rather than following system development. Bryan and Adam talk with Oxide colleagues about how domain specific debugging tools help us build systems not only more robustly, but faster as well.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Dave Pacheco. John Gallagher, Alan Hanson, and Eliza Weisman.

Previous episodes mentioned:

• OxF: AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik
• OxF: The Saga of Sagas
• OxF: A Crate is Born
• OxF: The Network Behind the Network
• OxF: Bringing up Cosmo
• OxF: RIP USENIX ATC
• OxF: Dijkstra’s Tweetstorm

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

• omdb ground rules

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