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by thundergolfer 136 days ago
Modal engineer here. This isn’t correct. You can DIY this but certainly not by wrapping EC2 which is using the Nitro hypervisor and is not optimized for startup time.

Nearly all players in this space use Gvisor or Firecracker.
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sebmellen 136 days ago
Do you know Eric Zhang by chance? I went to school with him and saw that he was at Modal sometime back. Potentially the smartest person I’ve ever met… and a very impressive technical mind.

Super impressed with what you’ve all done at Modal!

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thundergolfer 135 days ago
yeh of course I worked with him for a few years! Agree, smartest person I've ever worked with, and there's a smart crowd at Modal.
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