Dave Pacheco outlines Oxide's DNS architecture, where CockroachDB serves as the authoritative source for DNS data and Nexus asynchronously propagates changes to DNS servers. The article details a systematic debugging framework for diagnosing missing DNS records, tracing through database state, propagation gaps, and server configuration issues.
Background
Oxide Computer Company is building a private cloud platform; this post comes from co-founder Dave Pacheco's engineering blog, discussing their control plane's DNS service architecture.
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- Lobsters
- Published
- Oct 17, 2026 at 03:21 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10