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Modal Blog·· 2025-06-30AI score28

How Quora uses Modal to run thousands of Python sandboxes simultaneously

How Quora uses Modal to run thousands of Python sandboxes simultaneously

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Quora uses Modal Sandboxes to securely execute LLM-generated code in Poe, its AI chatbot platform, shipping the feature months earlier than an in-house build would have allowed. The team stress-tested Sandbox creation throughput to 1000 sandboxes per second and reports saving 2 engineers' worth of ongoing infrastructure maintenance time.

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