Inside OpenRouter’s Tech Stack and Use of Effect #6

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

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