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This Week in Effect - 2024-10-11

Hi Effecters!

Welcome back to This Week In Effect (TWIE) – your weekly update of the latest developments in the Effect community and ecosystem.

Effect is a powerful TypeScript library that helps developers create complex, synchronous, and asynchronous programs. One of the key features that sets Effect apart is how it leverages structured concurrency to provide features such as async cancellation and safe resource management, making it easier to build robust, scalable, and efficient programs.

To get started, below you’ll find links to our documentation as well as our guide for installing Effect. Enjoy!

Recent major updates:

Here are all the technical changes from this week (note that changes included in the 3.9 release will not be listed)

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  • This week we celebrate another community milestone: Effect reached 1.2 million weekly downloads through npm!
  • Effect Days 2025 Tickets are now on sale! As announced in the last TWIE, Effect Days will be taking place on March 19-21, 2025 at Palazzo Pancaldi in the Tuscan Italian town, Livorno.
  • Dillon Mulroy, Software Engineer at Vercel, livestreamed two new episodes about Building with EffectTS, Svelte 5, and Postgres on his Twitch channel.
  • Maxwell Brown & Michael Arnaldi went live on X and Twitch on Tuesday with a special educational session about Software Transactional Memory in Effect. The video will soon be available on our YouTube.
  • Mattia Manzati started a new series on Twitch about Building a small warehouse app with Effect.
  • The special episode Effect Cluster Development - Re-Thinking the Entity Manager by Maxwell Brown has already been published on the Effect YouTube Channel.
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That’s all for this week. Thank you for being a vital part of our community. Your feedback is highly valued as we fine-tune this format. Feel free to share your thoughts, and we’ll do our best to tailor it to the needs of our community.

Effect Community Team