--- title: What I have been working on: Modal | daily.dev description: Erik Bernhardsson, former Spotify engineer and CTO, introduces Modal, a cloud compute platform designed specifically for data teams. Modal lets developers run... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-i-have-been-working-on-modal-slzbz2s4l twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What I have been working on: Modal | daily.dev og:description: Erik Bernhardsson, former Spotify engineer and CTO, introduces Modal, a cloud compute platform designed specifically for data teams. Modal lets developers run... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-i-have-been-working-on-modal-slzbz2s4l og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/slzbz2s4l.png og:image:alt: What I have been working on: Modal og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What I have been working on: Modal **[Erik Bernhardsson](https://daily.dev/sources/erikbernhardsson)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Erik Bernhardsson, former Spotify engineer and CTO, introduces Modal, a cloud compute platform designed specifically for data teams. Modal lets developers run Python functions in the cloud in under a second using a simple decorator syntax, without writing YAML or managing Kubernetes. It handles containerization, GPU access, scheduling, and scaling automatically. Under the hood, Modal uses custom-built container runners, image builders, and a FUSE-based filesystem written in Rust to achieve fast cold starts and efficient image management. Use cases include ML model inference (Stable Diffusion, Whisper), data pipelines, cron jobs, and web scraping. The product was in waitlist-only mode at time of writing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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