# Effectful Technologies > Effectful Technologies builds the Effect ecosystem — a set of open-source TypeScript > libraries for writing production-grade software. The flagship `effect` library is a > composable standard library and execution engine that unifies error handling, resource > management, concurrency, dependency injection, observability, and testability. Effect is > described by the company as "Layer 0" of a broader vision extending into distributed > systems: RPC, SQL, clustering, and durable execution. Distributed via npm; not an HTTP API. ## About - Company: Effectful Technologies - Product ecosystem: Effect (open source, MIT) - Backed by: Amplify Partners - Corporate site: https://effectful.co - Product site & docs: https://effect.website ## Docs - Documentation: https://effect.website/docs - Getting started: https://effect.website/docs (Getting Started section) - Blog: https://effect.website/blog - Effect Days conference: https://effect.website/events/effect-days ## Source - GitHub organization: https://github.com/Effect-TS - Core monorepo: https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect - Examples: https://github.com/Effect-TS/examples - Language service (LSP): https://github.com/Effect-TS/language-service ## Packages (npm, official) - effect — https://www.npmjs.com/package/effect - @effect/platform — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@effect/platform - @effect/platform-node — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@effect/platform-node - @effect/platform-browser — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@effect/platform-browser - @effect/platform-bun — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@effect/platform-bun - @effect/sql — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@effect/sql - @effect/rpc — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@effect/rpc - @effect/cli — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@effect/cli - @effect/cluster — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@effect/cluster - @effect/ai — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@effect/ai - @effect/opentelemetry — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@effect/opentelemetry - @effect/vitest — https://www.npmjs.com/package/@effect/vitest ## Community - Discord: https://discord.gg/effect-ts - X / Twitter: https://x.com/EffectTS_ ## Catalog (API Evangelist) - Packages / SDKs: packages/effectful-packages.yml - Changelog: changelog/effectful-changelog.yml - Domain security: security/effectful-domain-security.yml