AWS and Google wouldn't give fal GPUs. So fal built its own cloud on top of everyone…
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AWS and Google wouldn't give fal GPUs. So fal built its own cloud on top of everyone else's. Batuhan Taskaya, head of engineering at fal ($16B), on the build: 1. Kubernetes took ~5 seconds to start a container across clouds 2. Fine for a website, too expensive in GPU time for fal 3. So they wrote their own orchestrator 4. Then a distributed file system to load model weights fast 5. Cached on local disk, on peer machines at 100 Gbps and in RAM That cache was their single biggest performance gain. Lessons: → Measure what the standard tool costs you in your own unit → Being multicloud early
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