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>>johnsp+(OP)
Secret placeholders seems like a good design decision.

So many sandbox products these days though. What are people using in production and what should one know about this space? There's Modal, Daytona, Fly, Cloudflare, Deno, etc

>>yakkom+Q01
These are all wrappers around VMs. You could DIY these easily by using EC2/serverless/GCP SDKs.

>>ATechG+nh1
Modal engineer here. This isn’t correct. You can DIY this but certainly not by wrapping EC2 which is using the Nitro hypervisor and is not optimized for startup time.

Nearly all players in this space use Gvisor or Firecracker.

>>thunde+BS1
Do you know Eric Zhang by chance? I went to school with him and saw that he was at Modal sometime back. Potentially the smartest person I’ve ever met… and a very impressive technical mind.

Super impressed with what you’ve all done at Modal!