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effectful technologies

Primitives for building end-to-end applications in TypeScript

Mission

We believe in the composability of solutions 

We want to get to a world where software developers can focus on what a program should accomplish, rather than how

How

Building the right building blocks 

Programming distributed systems in the cloud should feel as effortless as programming a local-only app.

Programming, in general, should feel more approachable and user-friendly, regardless of the system's complexity.

We started building Effect years ago with a clear plan

 Having a highly performant & flexible execution engine for every TypeScript program that could resolve all the common general-purpose problems found in app development:

  • error management
  • safe resource management
  • concurrency
  • software testability
  • dependency injection
  • and many more...

A growing community

2000
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Ecosystem projects

1
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Active contributors

1
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It doesn't end here

Effect is only the “Layer 0" of what we have in mind

While Effect is a composable and complete composable solution to general-purpose programming, other problems arise in distributed systems, just as they do in browsers.

These include transparent invocation of remote procedures, data serialization, and durable execution or – as they say – transactions for distributed systems.

Going further – assuming we have every bit of app development figured out – there is still a big chunk left

Managing the infrastructure needed to deploy everything in a continuously evolving world where an average website needs at least two or three different cloud providers with different configurations in order to work.

Founding team

The brains behind Effectful

Bringing together extensive experience and deep domain knowledge to craft solutions that address real-world challenges.

Johannes Schickling

advisor & power user

Mirela Prifti

community & design

Sebastian Lorenz

advisor & power user

Justin Farr-Jones

Non-executive director