Jamsocket’s Session-Lived Infra Gets a New Home with Modal

Jamsocket’s Session-Lived Infra Gets a New Home with Modal

About a decade ago, Paul Butler and Taylor Baldwin met in the generative art world, talking about pen plotters. At the time, Butler was an analyst at Two Sigma and Baldwin a software engineer at BuzzFeed—both had spent years knee-deep in the complexities of data infrastructure. Specifically, Butler recalled a problem he kept running into while building internal tools at Two Sigma: “I realized that there was this collision course between people w…