Modal launches ultra-low-latency servers for high-performance applications

Modal has introduced a new feature called Modal Servers, designed to provide ultra-low-latency server hosting for applications requiring high performance, such as LLM inference for interactive agents. This new offering utilizes a routing layer composed of a streaming edge proxy, an intelligent stateless proxy, and a compute load balancer, built upon technologies like Pingora, Envoy, and Spanner. Unlike Modal Web Functions, which offer built-in reliability features akin to TCP, Modal Servers are optimized for speed, operating more like UDP by pushing reliability concerns to the application layer, thereby minimizing overhead and latency. AI

IMPACT Enables lower latency for AI inference and interactive agents by optimizing server performance.

RANK_REASON Product launch from a cloud provider focused on infrastructure tooling.

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• Envoy
• gRPC
• HTTP
• iWARP
• Modal
• Modal Web Functions
• Pingora
• Python
• remote direct memory access
• RoCE v2
• Spanner
• Transmission Control Protocol
• User Datagram Protocol
• WebRTC
• WebSocket

• product
• infra

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