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One system built on Node.js. Breakthrough web performance. Database, cache, messaging, & applications fused into one runtime.

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Harper @harper.fast · Mar 4
We are now Harper! 

Today, we fuse database, cache, application, and messaging into a single hyper-performant process delivering 1 ms server latency for use cases at scale.

Our rebrand is about defining the next era of web performance.

Learn more: buff.ly/krq84KJ
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Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁

We cooked up a Harper Thanksgiving Game using Google Antigravity, built on Harper, and deployed with Harper Fabric. Enjoy!

Play: buff.ly/IUJ7yjo
Blog: buff.ly/ItnARew

Make it to the end? Screenshot it!
Thanksgiving Maze
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November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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In our Season 4 premiere of the SELECT* podcast, we sit down with our Harper Hack '25 winners Josh and Colin to discuss their hackathon winning app Mell.

🎧 Watch the full episode on the Harper website:
www.harper.fast/resources/bu...

#HarperHack2025 #Harper #AI #Developers #Innovation
Podcast | Building a Smarter 311 App
Discover how Harper Hack winners Colin and Josh built MELL, an AI-powered community reporting app. Learn about their inspiration, tech stack, UX approach, and how AI streamlines issue reporting for…
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November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Harper Learn #4 is live. Ivan shows how to simplify BigQuery pipelines by replacing Redis + custom APIs with a single Harper layer.

Ingest once, get low-latency data access and built-in APIs with far less code.

Watch here: buff.ly/HXxYC1n
Tutorial | BigQuery to Harper: Real-Time Data Access Without Redis or Custom APIs
Modernize your BigQuery architecture with Harper. Replace Redis and boilerplate APIs with a unified, low-latency data layer built for real-time delivery.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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AI now reacts to data, not just analyzes it. That demands real-time systems.

E-commerce personalization, fraud checks, and industrial telemetry all need ms-level speed.

Learn why old pub/sub struggles + what’s next:
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#AI #PubSub #RealTime
Blog | Pub/Sub for AI: The New Requirements for Real-Time Data
Harper’s unified pub/sub architecture delivers real-time data, low-latency replication, and multi-protocol streaming for AI and edge applications. Learn how database-native MQTT, WebSockets, and SSE…
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November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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What if your app could respond in <1 ms?

Meet the distributed microlith — a unified runtime that puts data, logic, cache & messaging in the same memory space. Global scale without the orchestration chaos.

Full article 👉 buff.ly/hfU2I3V
Blog | Deliver Performance and Simplicity with Distributed Microliths
Distributed microliths unify data, logic, and execution into one high-performance runtime, eliminating microservice latency and complexity. By replicating a single coherent process across regions,…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Ivan Judson is at it again.
This week’s #HarperLearn shows how to take a local app and deploy it to a multi-node Harper cluster in minutes, going from “works on my machine” to “scales globally.”

Plus a sneak peek at next week’s MQTT demo.

👉 buff.ly/hjTHNzy
Tutorial | From Local to Distributed Multi-Node Cluster in Minutes
See how to take a local Harper app to a distributed, multi-node cloud cluster with simple deployment steps, built-in scaling, and an MQTT real-world demo.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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This week, Ivan’s back with a new Harper Learn episode! 🎥

He walks through connecting a local instance to Fabric + building & deploying a simple app. Perfect if you’re new to Harper.

👉 Watch here: buff.ly/ic245E2

#DeveloperTools #Learning #EdgeComputing #AppDevelopment
Tutorial | Local Instances on Fabric & Basic App Setup
Learn how to build and manage applications in Harper’s Fabric environment. Solution Architect Ivan Judson walks through connecting cloud and self-hosted instances, demoing a basic app with Harper’s…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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A global fashion retailer used Harper to modernize its edge stack, and the results speak for themselves:

50% faster LCP
60% lower TTFB
70% faster page loads
80% higher cache hit rate

Read the case study → www.harper.fast/resources/bo...

#WebPerformance #EdgeComputing #CoreWebVitals
Case Study | Boosting Web Performance for a Global Fashion Retailer
Discover how Harper helped a leading global fashion retailer achieve 70% faster page loads, a 60% reduction in TTFB, and stronger Core Web Vitals through edge optimization and intelligent caching in…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Discover how Harper’s new pre-rendering template boosts website SEO and performance. Learn how edge delivery, orchestration, and Puppeteer rendering enable lightning-fast static pages and seamless scalability for modern React applications.

Watch now: buff.ly/bPJJAeH
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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We just launched Harper Learn, a new video series to help developers get hands-on with Harper.

🎥 Watch the first episode: buff.ly/UWake2g
💬 Join the dev community on Discord: buff.ly/jcOFPsp

Shoutout to Ivan + team!
Tutorial | Harper Fast Setup
Ivan walks through installing Harper, showing how to set up, configure, and run your first project. This demo highlights the simplicity and speed of getting started with Harper for high-performance…
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October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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“Building something simple is hard.” — Kris Zyp

Meet Harper Fabric (open beta): unified orchestration for distributed apps & data. Simpler deployments and scaling.

Learn more 👉 buff.ly/OIx6yGc

#DistributedApps #OpenBeta
Graphic for a blog titled “Introducing Harper Fabric: Unified Infrastructure for Distributed Apps.” The image features a glowing digital background with neon blue and pink network lines connecting servers and a laptop displaying a “Deploy Application” button. The Harper logo appears in the bottom left corner. The design conveys themes of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and modern app deployment.
October 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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A single URL parameter change by Google erased billions from Reddit's market cap and proved the top 10 still rule search.

Read more ➜ www.harper.fast/resources/go...

#SEO #AEO #TechMarketing
Blog | Google Erased $3 Billion in Market Cap - and Showed that the Top 10 is Everything
Google’s deprecation of a single URL parameter erased billions from Reddit’s valuation—proving SEO’s power in the AI era. Learn why visibility, structured content, and technical optimization remain…
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October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🚀 Harper Hack ’25 kicks off tomorrow!
Join us Oct 21 at 10 a.m. MT for the kickoff event 🎉

Compete in our 2-week virtual hackathon celebrating Harper’s open-source future — and win a trip to Tokyo (🎌 up to $5K value)!

👉 Sign up now: buff.ly/33cu3bW
Harper Hack '25
Experience an online hackathon that challenges you to code, design, and innovate using Harper with AI integrated. Push the limits of what applications can achieve, gain visibility for your work, and…
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October 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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🎉 Congrats to Ethan Arrowood for winning the Leading by Example JavaScriptLandia Award from the @openjsf at #JSConf 2025!

Ethan’s impact spans the JS ecosystem — from @nodejs, Undici, and WinterCG to his leadership within OpenJS and contributions to Harper’s open-source efforts.

👉 buff.ly/YnbgF5o
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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🚀 Big news from #JSConf!

Harper is now open source!🎉

Stephen Goldberg & @kriszyp.bsky.social dropped the announcement live on stage, and our “High Octane. Open Source.” coffee bar kept devs buzzing. ☕️

Dive in → harper.fast/start
October 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Bags packed. Coffee secured. Demos ready.

Harper lands at #JSConf2025 tomorrow and we can’t wait to meet you.

📍 Chesapeake Bay, Oct 14–16

👉 buff.ly/tdLeNS3

#JavaScriptCommunity
October 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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JSConf 2025 is almost here 👀

Harper’s sponsoring again, and we’re fired up for the chaos: talks, devs, ideas, and coffee.

📍 Chesapeake Bay, Oct 14–16

🎟️ buff.ly/Vhti0zB #JavaScript #OpenJS
October 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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The real JSConf stack:
☑ JavaScript
☑ Friends
☑ Conference coffee

Harper’s proud to sponsor #JSConf2025—let’s code, connect, and caffeinate.📍 Chesapeake Bay, Oct 14–16

👉 buff.ly/tdLeNS3

#JavaScript
September 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Skip the boilerplate. Start building faster. ⚡️

With Harper, your schema isn’t just data—it is your app. Define it once and get APIs, caching & real-time events out of the box.

See how schema-defined apps change how you build ↓
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Skip the Boilerplate: How a Schema Can Power Your Entire Stack
Most apps start simple then accrete APIs, auth, caching, and realtime—Harper flips that by making your schema the app: define tables and relationships and you instantly get generated APIs, integrated…
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August 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Save ~1s off LCP with a tweak you can ship in an afternoon ⚡️

That’s the power of Early Hints (HTTP 103): browsers fetch critical assets before HTML arrives.

✅ Chrome, Edge, Firefox: supported
⛔ Safari: not yet

Even partial adoption = big wins.
👉 buff.ly/xDEM9c6
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August 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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📌 If you missed them: Two new Harper guides

🛒 E-commerce APIs - buff.ly/jlYTsCd
📅 Calendar APIs - buff.ly/fsw6Fb5

One schema → full functionality ⚡
August 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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📌 If you missed it yesterday: Our guide to building calendar apps with Harper

One GraphQL schema gets you scheduling, conflict detection, and real-time updates without managing multiple services. 📅

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August 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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🚨 NEW ARTICLE ✨

We just wrote about building calendar apps with Harper. One GraphQL schema gets you scheduling, conflict detection, and real-time updates without managing multiple services. 📅

Read here ➡️ buff.ly/lQQlLW2
August 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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📌 ICYMI: Our e-commerce + Harper guide from last week

Traditional setup:
❌ 6 different services 🤯
❌ Complex coordination 😅

Harper:
✅ One schema file 📝
✅ Everything generated ⚡

Read here 👇
Building a Product Catalog and Shopping Cart with Harper's GraphQL API | Tutorial
Building e-commerce features with traditional stacks means dealing with complexity that grows with every new requirement. You start with a product database and API server. Then you need Redis for…
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August 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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🚨 NEW ARTICLE ✨

Traditional e-commerce setup:
❌ Redis + Kafka + crossed fingers 🤞
❌ 3am debugging sessions 😴
❌ Complex service coordination 🤯

Harper's approach:
✅ One schema file 📝
✅ Everything auto-generated ⚡
✅ Just works 🎯

buff.ly/wxgYCYi
August 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM