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by paulddraper 12 days ago
They never used K8s for this.

They did reference it as an example for how a non-specialized solution would fall over.

> Modal’s original sandbox architecture has similar issues. Like Kubernetes, we rely on strong consistency throughout our backend, so creating and scheduling sandboxes requires global coordination, and O(sandboxes) writes to Postgres, which we cannot trivially shard.