Erik Bernhardsson of Modal.com

Blog
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Modal
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/ highlightio
Channels
‪@highlight-io‬
Summary
Erik Bernhardsson is the founder of Modal Labs, a serverless compute platform specializing in high-performance workloads running on both CPUs and GPUs.
Modal.com focuses on nearly instant code deploys, enabling developers to write locally and run their code on Modal.com's cloud GPUs. Sub-second code deploys enable super fast feedback looks, keeping developers productive throughout their day.
00:00:00 Cold open
01:04:23 Introducing Erik
02:32:01 Modal.com
04:48:20 Data pipeline ecosystem
06:26:19 What modal does
10:20:23 Infrastructure reliability
14:22:20 Startup velocity
15:33:14 Machine learning stack
17:42:19 Serverless fully-integrated into the local stack
19:00:15 Modal's userbase
20:30:00 Building modal
21:48:07 Ultrafast feedback loops
23:52:06 Modal user experience
25:49:13 Arbitrary Python
27:45:06 Software team leadership
28:20:05 Code review not mandated
30:29:20 No meetings or sprints
31:23:20 Interviewing candidates
35:38:21 Dogmatic beliefs
37:31:04 Engineering at Modal
39:05:16 Twitter questions

[@connor-shorten]

Awesome! Super informative podcast, thanks so much!

[@highlight-io]

Thanks for watching! This is the second one we've produced with this method. We're trying to keep the pipeline full so we can get close to weekly releases.