Blog https://www.highlight.io/blog/podcast-ep4-modal-with-erik-bernhardsson Modal https://modal.com/ https://twitter.com/bernhardsson Highlight https://www.highlight.io/ https://twitter.com/thejaykhatri https://twitter.com/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