@bernhardsson: One way to think about @modal in the limit is that we're an aggregator of compute on a global scale and resource manage…
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Modal aims to be a global aggregator of compute and resource manager, acting as a very large global computer.
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@charles_irl: Added a smol new section to last week's blog post on the technical internals of @modal's fast cold boots. This section …
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