We’re excited to share that the Jamsocket team is joining Modal! Jamsocket is a backend platform used to build sync engines that power collaborative apps. Jamsocket consists of multiple products:

• Plane: the open-source orchestrator that powers Jamsocket
• Y-Sweet: a document store and realtime sync backend that runs on top of Jamsocket
• ForeverVM: stateful Python REPLs as a service for AI code execution

Paul Butler (Jamsocket co-founder), Akshat Bubna (Modal co-founder), and Taylor Baldwin (Jamsocket co-founder)

Jamsocket co-founders Paul Butler and Taylor Baldwin will be joining the Modal team as part of this acquisition. Paul is CEO of Jamsocket, with many years of experience as a software engineer and quant. Taylor is CTO, with a long background in building data visualizations and a fun stint on the New York Times’s R&D team.

We’ve known Paul and Taylor for several years now. They’re stalwarts in the NY tech scene and regularly host events for the developer community. We remember very early conversations where we swapped notes on gVisor, the secure container runtime that both Modal and Jamsocket are built on.

We’re excited to have Paul and Taylor on board to build Jamsocket and ForeverVM-like functionality on Modal’s platform. Jamsocket products will continue to operate normally while the core functionality is being migrated to Modal.