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Lambda on hard mode: Inside Modal's web infrastructure

At Modal, we built an HTTP and WebSocket stack on our platform. In other words, your serverless functions can take web requests. This was tricky! HTTP has quite a few edge cases, so we used Rust for its speed and to help manage the complexity. But even so, it took a while to get right. We recently wrapped up this feature by introducing full WebSocket support (real-time bidirectional messaging). We call this service modal-http, and it sits between the Web and our core runtime. You can deploy a si...

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