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Explore the journey of building Modal's infrastructure platform in this keynote presentation that challenges conventional approaches to AI development tooling. Learn why the Modal team decided to abandon Kubernetes and Docker in favor of creating their own container system, driven by the pursuit of an exceptional developer experience for AI and compute-intensive applications. Discover the technical decisions, architectural choices, and engineering challenges encountered while building a custom infrastructure solution from the ground up. Gain insights into the specific pain points of existing developer tools in the AI space and understand how rethinking fundamental infrastructure components can lead to dramatically improved workflows for AI engineers and developers working with compute-heavy applications.
