Back Engineering July 30, 2025•10 minute readAt Modal, we’re obsessed with cold start latency. Earlier this year, we introduced memory snapshots to slash startup times by more than half. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the next evolution: GPU memory snapshots—bringing the same checkpoint/restore magic to GPU-accelerated workloads. Eliminating cold boot bottlenecks Since our inception, we have been attacking the cold boot problem from three angles: Custom file system optimized for cold boots CP...