Show Notes
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 & docs Community & support Follow us on X (Twitter) Github
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(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
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