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Introducing Module of the Week

Module of the Week is a weekly blog post that explores the lesser-known parts of Effect, one module at a time.

Three-panel comic: a tired developer stands beside a broken car labeled "My custom implementation" and tells an Effect salesperson they need a queue, retries, and concurrency control. The salesperson slaps the roof of an Effect car: "You would not BELIEVE how many problems somebody already solved in this thing." Modules spill out, including PersistedQueue. The developer says, "I spent two weekends on this." The salesperson replies, "Oof. Those aren’t refundable."

Ever spent your weekend working on a cool new feature for your app, only to discover on Monday that Effect already had a module for that? Honestly, it’s happened to me too.

I’ve been halfway through explaining something I built to Mike and had him respond with, “But why? Tim added that a while ago.” Of course he did. I don’t know what that man eats for breakfast but we should probably study it.

So now I have my implementation, the one that’s already in Effect, and several household responsibilities I ignored all weekend because was “working on something”.

I’m starting a new blog series called “Module of the Week”. Each week I’ll pick a lesser-known or lesser-used feature in Effect and walk through what it does, when to reach for it, and how to use it.

To be clear this is as much for me as it is for all of you - just a clever excuse for me to learn about all the cool stuff already built into Effect.

We could all stand to touch some more grass. So go outside. Tim needs a minute alone with your implementation and his delete key.

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