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Modal: Simplifying Infrastructure and Scaling for Data Teams
In this chapter, they discuss Modal, a tool for data teams that helps with infrastructure management and scaling. They talk about the motivation behind creating Modal, the challenges faced by data teams when building their own data platforms, and their approach to rethinking the entire data stack. They also discuss the benefits of using Modal for code deployment, the ease of setting up infrastructure for GPU-based products, and the primitives provided by Modal to build and define cloud functions.