Gotta do something while my agents are busy…
Peyton Walters@peywalt
@modal 💚 @turbopuffer 👷♂️ by @dshaar_
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Daniel Shaar
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Daniel Shaar
@dshaar_
Engineer @modal_labs — ex Jane St, Google, MIT
New York, NY Katılım Mayıs 2025
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He finally found his match 💚 @waltergoat
Dev Kunjadia 🇺🇸@dev_kunjadia
intern final boss just connected with me on linkedin
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A number of smart engineers have looked at the us-east-1 outage and covered it with the blanket of a simple explanation: brain drain; race condition; it’s always DNS; the cloud is unreliable, go on-prem.
Even sitting outside AWS, you can look and find at least a dozen troubles.
thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-ea…
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🎉 aaaand we also dropped a sick website redesign, check it out!
Erik Bernhardsson@bernhardsson
It's true – @modal has raised a $87M Series B at a $1.1B valuation to advance the future of AI infrastructure. Thank you to @Lux_Capital, @Redpoint, @AmplifyPartners, and others. Now more than ever, AI demands a complete reinvention of traditional compute infrastructure
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We're thrilled to share Modal Notebooks: a new, powerful cloud-hosted GPU notebook. It has modern real-time collaborative editing and is backed by our AI infrastructure — swap GPUs in seconds.
Modal Notebooks are generally available, and you can start using them now. 🧵
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Building out the backend for “AI-scale” batch jobs on Modal has been one of the cooler bits of tech I’ve worked on. Making it ridiculously easy to use is what keeps Modal feeling like magic 🪄.
Super happy to see @_gongy and the team’s efforts here come to fruition!
Modal@modal
Today, we're launching Modal Batch. Run large-scale batch jobs that scale across thousands of containers without writing a single line of YAML.
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@zaachsiieegeel @charles_irl @akshat_b @modal_labs @andersonbcdefg Also, if you wanted to have info out while you’re holding a lock (like with the put version), you’d need a separate key for that. I imagine there are some annoying race conditions there
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@charles_irl @akshat_b @modal_labs @dshaar_ @andersonbcdefg So I'm thinking about this more and @dshaar_ what exactly does this unlock? My understanding is that .pop() was already guaranteed to only return a value to one client, so wasn't it already possible (albeit harder and worse) to create a global lock?
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We've had support for Dicts, a serverless KV store, for a while now on @modal_labs. @dshaar_ just overhauled them to make them 10x better:
🚀 No scale limits
📆 LRU-cache semantics
🔐 Distributed locking
💎 Durability
With this, they feels much more like a primitive that *just work* for everything from storing temporary state to caching function results.
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@zaachsiieegeel @charles_irl @akshat_b @modal_labs @andersonbcdefg Interesting point—in principle the absence of a key could totally indicate that a lock is held! I think maybe there’s a sticking point around figuring out how the item first gets there to indicate an unlocked state
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Really excited to drop this! Check out the blog here - modal.com/blog/cache-dic…
Some alternative titles that didn’t quite make the cut:
- Big Dict Energy
- Dict Size Doesn’t Matter
Akshat Bubna@akshat_b
We've had support for Dicts, a serverless KV store, for a while now on @modal_labs. @dshaar_ just overhauled them to make them 10x better: 🚀 No scale limits 📆 LRU-cache semantics 🔐 Distributed locking 💎 Durability With this, they feels much more like a primitive that *just work* for everything from storing temporary state to caching function results.
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