Jul 08, 2026

The 100,000 Sandbox Problem — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO

Modal CTO Akshat Bubna discusses the company's shift from developer to agent experience, highlighting why traditional cloud infrastructure fails for bursty AI workloads. He details Modal's primitives like elastic inference with GPU snapshotting and speculative decoding, agent sandboxes for RL rollouts, multi-node training with RDMA, and a "supercloud" strategy across 17 providers. The conversation also covers the importance of observability, hard guardrails for production agents, and AI's role in making infrastructure exciting again.

Mar 19, 2026

One Size Fits None: How Platform Engineering Must Evolve • William Rizzo & Colin Griffin • GOTO 2026

Colin Griffin and William Rizzo discuss the future of platform engineering, emphasizing the need to move beyond one-size-fits-all frameworks. They explore how different industries like fintech, telco, and automotive require tailored platforms due to unique regulatory and business challenges. The conversation highlights the growing pressure to link platform investments to clear business outcomes and details the infrastructure reckoning caused by large-scale GPU investments for AI, which brings hardware and network orchestration to the forefront.