Cause & Effect

Get support from the Effect communityIn this episode, Johannes Schickling talks with Adam Rankin, CTO at Warp, about using Effect to bring structure and composability to a growing TypeScript codebase, enabling a small, fast-moving team to stay productive while shipping reliable payment & payroll systems.Jobs at Warp.Effect is an ecosystem of tools to build production-grade software in TypeScript.Website & docsCommunity & supportFollow us on X (Twitter)Github#Effect #TypeScript #Spiko #softwareDevelopmentSong: Dosi & Aisake - Cruising [NCS Release]Music provided by NoCopyrightSoundsFree Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/CruisingWatch: http://ncs.lnk.to/CruisingAT/youtube (00:00) - Intro (01:45) - Adam’s background & early startup experience (08:18) - Warp's origin story (17:36) - What made Effect click for Warp (29:24) - Getting started with Effect (AI browser agent) (34:52) - Onboarding developers to Effect (42:17) - Benefits of composability in payment systems (43:53) - Warp’s system architecture (56:48) - Closing thoughts

Get support from the Effect communityLouis Vichy, co-founder of OpenRouter, joins Johannes Schickling and Michael Arnaldi to talk about OpenRouter’s TypeScript stack, internal tooling powered by Effect, and the engineering challenges of scaling an AI platform processing trillions of tokens weekly.Effect is an ecosystem of tools to build production-grade software in TypeScript.Website & docsCommunity & supportFollow us on X (Twitter)Github#Effect #TypeScript #Spiko #softwareDevelopmentSong: Dosi & Aisake - Cruising [NCS Release]Music provided by NoCopyrightSoundsFree Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/CruisingWatch: http://ncs.lnk.to/CruisingAT/youtube (00:00) - Guest Intro & OpenRouter (07:45) - Why Everything Runs in TypeScript (15:43) - Scaling & Routing in OpenRouter’s Infrastructure (18:03) - Michael’s Story: Why Effect Was Born (23:11) - Effect vs. Result Types and Error Handling (26:04) - Culture, Hiring & Engineering Consistency (30:48) - The Case for Gradual Effect Adoption (32:30) - Generators, Pipe, and Functional Design (47:41) - Observability & Concurrency (58:35) - Agentic Systems, Orchestration & Observability (01:16:41) - Using Effect in OpenRouter’s Internal Tooling

Get support from the Effect communityThis podcast episode features Samuel Briole, CTO of Spiko, a Paris-based FinTech startup building infrastructure for issuing regulated financial products on public blockchains, specifically risk-free products. Spiko utilizes the Effect extensively from day one, for both backend and frontend development, particularly for managing asynchronous operations, API integrations, and smart contracts.Learn more about & follow Samuel:LinkedInGitHubeffect-messagingEffect is an ecosystem of tools to build production-grade software in TypeScript.Website & docsCommunity & supportFollow us on X (Twitter)Github#Effect #TypeScript #Spiko #softwareDevelopmentSong: Dosi & Aisake - Cruising [NCS Release]Music provided by NoCopyrightSoundsFree Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/CruisingWatch: http://ncs.lnk.to/CruisingAT/youtube (15:12) - Event-Driven Systems (22:45) - Choosing RabbitMQ over Kafka or NATS (28:26) - Why they built effect-messaging (39:53) - Effect Schema, Versioning, Async Messaging (46:44) - Agents & Effect AI (53:21) - Closing Thoughts & Looking Ahead

In this episode of Cause & Effect, Johannes Schickling is joined by Dillon Mulroy, Domains Lead at Vercel, who shares his personal journey with Effect and how Vercel gradually adopted it across their Domains platform. Dillon explains why Effect feels like having superpowers for error handling, observability, testing, and more.Whether you're skeptical or already experimenting with Effect, this conversation offers clarity, nuance, and inspiration. Enjoy!Effect is an ecosystem of tools to build production-grade software in TypeScript.Website & docsCommunity & supportFollow us on X (Twitter)Github#Effect #TypeScript #Vercel #softwareDevelopmentSong: Dosi & Aisake - Cruising [NCS Release]Music provided by NoCopyrightSoundsFree Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/CruisingWatch: http://ncs.lnk.to/CruisingAT/youtube (00:00) - Intro (03:00) - How Vercel Adopted Effect (10:57) - Dillon’s background (16:27) - Effect DX (22:13) - Lessons from other stacks (25:18) - From Skeptic to Advocate (31:13) - Effect's Incremental Adoption (42:31) - Effect ≠ RxJS, Effect vs Ramda (48:24) - Effect's superpowers at Vercel (52:31) - Wrap-Up & What’s Next

In this episode of Cause & Effect, Johannes Schickling had a conversation with David Golightly, Staff Engineer at MasterClass, to explore how his team built Cortex – a real-time voice AI orchestration layer that powers personalized conversations with celebrity instructors like Gordon Ramsay and Mark Cuban.Effect is an ecosystem of tools to build production-grade software in TypeScript.Website & docsCommunity & supportFollow us on X (Twitter)Github#Effect #TypeScript #Zendesk #softwareDevelopmentSong: Dosi & Aisake - Cruising [NCS Release]Music provided by NoCopyrightSoundsFree Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/CruisingWatch: http://ncs.lnk.to/CruisingAT/youtube (00:00) - Intro & David's background (04:56) - Discovering Effect & early impressions (08:32) - Why RxJS wasn’t enough for Cortex (16:15) - MasterClass On Call (19:10) - Building the orchestration layer (25:30) - Incremental adoption of Effect at MasterClass (31:43) - Text-to-speech component (40:08) - Error handling, observability, open-telemetry (01:01:20) - Looking ahead: Effect 4.0 & the future (01:08:00) - Closing thoughts