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Frontside Software @thefrontside

We are DX consultants improving the workflow of hundreds of enterprise developers. Find tips in integration testing and #backstageio here.

Joined June 2010
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Frontside Software@thefrontside
21 Apr 2025
🎉 Surprise — we’re turning 20 later this year. We've impacted millions of users and 300K developers—from startups to enterprises to OSS. We never chased the spotlight, just the hardest problems— and after 20 years, boy, do we have stories. 😅 Follow along at #Frontside20
Frontside 20th anniversary teaser graphic featuring the text 'Our 20th Is Coming' and a glowing treasure chest with the number 20 rising out, surrounded by colorful icons like code brackets, stars, and gears. Subtext reads: 'Follow along as we unlock the impact and the stories that shaped us.'"

ALT Frontside 20th anniversary teaser graphic featuring the text 'Our 20th Is Coming' and a glowing treasure chest with the number 20 rising out, surrounded by colorful icons like code brackets, stars, and gears. Subtext reads: 'Follow along as we unlock the impact and the stories that shaped us.'"
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"Strict" Structured Concurrency: because even with strong guarantees that all tasks have finished, you can still waste work and experience inadvertent deadlocks when background tasks keep running after the foreground is done. frontside.com/effection/blog…
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You call `controller.abort()` and it returns immediately, but did everything actually shutdown? The gap between "I asked it to stop" and "it actually stopped" is where leaks hide. frontside.com/effection/blog…
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Kotlin, Swift, Python 3.11, and Java 21 all ship it, and Go has libraries to implement it. This is why JavaScript needs Structured Concurrency frontside.com/effection/blog…
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🚀 Frontside: Leading at every level. This was an awesome project to be part of! From writing code to shaping certifications as Super SMEs, we drive DX platform building. Scaling Backstage? Let’s talk. 📩 frontside.com/contact/

Frontside Software@thefrontside
18 Feb 2025
🚀 Proud to be a Super SME for the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA)! Big thanks to @TheLinuxFoundation for leading the charge on this certification and to the entire Backstage community & contributors who made it happen! #Backstage #DevEx #CBA #DeveloperExperience
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🚀 Proud to be a Super SME for the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA)! Big thanks to @TheLinuxFoundation for leading the charge on this certification and to the entire Backstage community & contributors who made it happen! #Backstage #DevEx #CBA #DeveloperExperience
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🚨 Flaky test suites hurt teams, products, users, and businesses. Graybox testing promises balance—but too often, it turns into a "Frankenbox". 🔎 Why does graybox testing fall short—and what’s a better approach? Read more: frontside.com/blog/2025-02-0…
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Happy 2025! 🎉2024 was a big year for us at Frontside. A year of breakthroughs, challenges, partnerships, and meaningful impact. We’re so proud of what we accomplished with our amazing clients and excited for what’s ahead in 2025! Check out our recap → frontside.com/blog/2025-01-0…
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.@cowboyd is Live Streaming on YouTube as we're pair programming on Effection V4 youtube.com/watch?v=08ABYTwJ… Come hang out with us #effection #structuredconcurrency

Effection V4 Live Coding

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Tauri@TauriApps
9 Jul 2024
Replying to @SimonHyll
@SimonHyll is guesting on @jacobbolda's stream right now - talking about Docs for Tauri 2.0: youtube.com/watch?v=YfFGg5kQ…
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🚀 Milestone Alert! 🚀 Effection, our structured concurrency library at Frontside, has hit 500 GitHub stars! 🌟 Huge thanks to our amazing community, clients, and partners. Check out Effection now: frontside.com/effection/ #Effection #structuredConcurrency
Image blue background, various sized stars, and GitHub logo with text "congratulations effection - structured concurrency and effects for javascript, 500 Github stars"

ALT Image blue background, various sized stars, and GitHub logo with text "congratulations effection - structured concurrency and effects for javascript, 500 Github stars"
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🌟 Celebrating 4 years as an Official Backstage Partner! We're thrilled to be spotlighted in the Backstage 2024 Roadmap call! 🎉 We’ve transformed 250k developers' lives with industry-leading expertise. Let’s chat! frontside.com/contact🚀 #DeveloperExperience #Backstage
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⊣˚∆˚⊢@djidja8
28 Dec 2023
Replying to @jrsinclair
great article! also, Effection 3.0 lib is brilliant and has such a nice, minimalistic API - 🙌 @cowboyd
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James Sinclair@jrsinclair
28 Dec 2023
A very good outline of why it’s important to know what async/await is doing behind the scenes. Also, generator functions are awesome. “The await event horizon in JavaScript” by @cowboyd frontside.com/blog/2023-12-1…

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🌟 As we countdown to 2024, we want to say thank you to you, our partners, clients, community, and friends for your support. Wishing you all a safe and spectacular New Year's Eve. Excited for what we'll achieve together in 2024! 🎇Happy New Year!🎇 Cheers! 🍻#NewYear2024
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🚀 Our Advanced Backstage Plugin Development Workshop was a big hit! 🌟 Huge thanks to our attendees for their enthusiasm and positive feedback. We are looking forward to the upcoming workshops in 2024. 🔌 Get plugged in. Join the waitlist for updates: frontside.com/workshops/adva…
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Write leak-proof code with a tiny API that harmonizes perfectly with the JavaScript constructs you know and love. Effection is Structured Concurrency and Effects for JavaScript, and today we're releasing version 3.0 #StructuredConcurrency #javascript frontside.com/blog/2023-12-1…

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Effection on GitHub and the Web - frontside.com/effection - github.com/thefrontside/effe…
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JavaScript’s async/await constructs have a critical flaw which makes it impossible to implement structured concurrency. @cowboyd explains what it is and how to get around it #JavaScript #StructuredConcurrency #AsyncProgramming frontside.com/blog/2023-12-1…

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Structured Concurrency is the next evolution in how programmers think about asynchronous systems. Learn all about how we do it in JavaScript with our very own @cowboyd in this showcase from @MiTypeScript youtube.com/watch?v=lJDgpxRw…

effection with Charles Lowell | TypeScript Showcase #7

Effection gives you some core primitives to write concurrent code. ...

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@MiTypeScript
8 Dec 2023
Wanna do concurrency in TypeScript? Well we've got just the thing for you. @cowboyd and @neurosnap join for a showcase on effection: a small but incredibly mighty library for doing structured concurrency. (links below 👇)
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