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.

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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