---
title: "Effect Days 2025: Building Effect 4"
description: "Michael Arnaldi presents Effect 4 as a redesign shaped by production feedback."
plain: "Michael Arnaldi presents Effect 4 as a redesign driven by production feedback from Effect 3."
group: source
speaker: "Michael Arnaldi"
date: 2025-04-08
url: https://youtu.be/nyvB6nRe5x0
sources:
  - url: https://youtu.be/nyvB6nRe5x0
    title: "Building Effect 4.0 | Michael Arnaldi (Effect Days 2025) - YouTube"
    publisher: "Michael Arnaldi"
    note: "Recording; used for Effect 4’s redesign from production feedback."
    accessed: "2026-10-01"
---

# Effect Days 2025: Building Effect 4

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Michael describes Effect 4 as a review of choices made in Effect 3, driven by production feedback. The work aims to remove duplicate concepts, reduce bundle size, and improve core data types. [04:21](https://youtu.be/nyvB6nRe5x0?t=261) [05:09](https://youtu.be/nyvB6nRe5x0?t=309) [06:17](https://youtu.be/nyvB6nRe5x0?t=377)

A fiber is independently running work. Batching groups operations. Transactional operations commit together.

He connects faster fibers with batching and transactional operations becoming ordinary Effect facilities rather than separate execution models. [22:56](https://youtu.be/nyvB6nRe5x0?t=1376) [28:03](https://youtu.be/nyvB6nRe5x0?t=1683)

## Sources

1. [Building Effect 4.0 | Michael Arnaldi (Effect Days 2025) - YouTube](https://youtu.be/nyvB6nRe5x0)
   Michael Arnaldi. Recording; used for Effect 4’s redesign from production feedback. Accessed 2026-10-01.

## Linked from

- Agent guide → An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/llms.txt)

- Change log → What changed in the files served here, newest first. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/log)

- Full agent guide → An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/llms-full.txt)

- Rat Stack lore | rat-stack → Short, source-grounded notes on the ideas and decisions behind rat-stack. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/lore)

- Source change history (log.md) → The generated change log as Markdown. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/log.md)