Everything You Need to Build Faster

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 distributed app platform

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 this performance-focused case study.

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.

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 distributed applications.

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 the foundation of discoverability across search and AI-driven platforms.

Harper Fabric is the new way to deploy distributed, low-latency applications. Unified orchestration, dynamic scaling, and innovative block pricing make global performance simple, predictable, and fast. Try Harper Fabric for free.

Harper announced at JSConf North America 2025 that it’s open-sourcing its composable full-stack web application platform. The distributed system unifies database, cache, messaging, and runtime for ultra-low-latency performance, fostering open innovation and wider Node.js community adoption.

Learn why Harper is open source, how Apache 2.0 works, which repos/plugins are open source or source available, and how Node.js/JavaScript teams can use Harper in commercial apps, contribute code, provide attribution, and get updates.

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the next evolution of SEO. Learn how to prepare your content for Google’s AI Overviews, Perplexity, and other answer engines. From structuring pages to governing bots, discover how to stay visible, earn citations, and capture future traffic streams.

Deploy AI agents at the edge with Harper’s fused stack. Reduce latency, capture feedback, and deliver real-time, adaptive experiences with seamless model deployment.

Stephen Goldberg, CEO of Harper, has been named a 2025 Most Admired CEO by the Denver Business Journal for his leadership and impact on Denver’s tech community.

A leading U.S. auto parts retailer used Harper’s Early Hints technology to overcome Core Web Vitals failures, achieving faster load speeds, dramatically improved indexation, and an estimated $8.6M annual revenue uplift. With minimal code changes, the proof-of-concept validated that even small performance gains can unlock significant growth opportunities for large-scale e-commerce businesses.

A U.S. mid-market online retailer struggling with Core Web Vitals and mobile performance saw search visibility and engagement plateau despite ongoing optimization efforts. By deploying Harper’s Early Hints technology in a 30-day proof of concept, the retailer achieved faster load times, 72% fewer poor mobile URLs, and an estimated $600K annual revenue uplift with minimal engineering effort.

The Holiday Readiness Playbook is a 6-week tactical guide that helps e-commerce teams optimize systems, streamline user experiences, and accelerate infrastructure ahead of peak Q4 traffic. It provides actionable steps, checklists, and frameworks to boost speed, resilience, and conversions during the year’s most competitive shopping season.

Harper is a scalable, high-performance database for businesses needing system-wide flexibility. Vercel, in contrast, is a low-cost front-end hosting platform for developers focused on web deployment.

When performance and cost matter, Harper’s fused‑stack outperforms Heroku’s multi‑service architecture by orders of magnitude—at a fraction of the price

Page Cache delivers sub-second product pages by accepting your existing SSR or static framework, pre-rendering where it helps, and injecting dynamic attributes (price, availability, promos, personalization) at the last responsible moment—often hitting ~600 ms for 95% of users. Running on Harper’s unified platform, it serves fully formed pages from the edge with minimal code change, simplifying infrastructure while improving SEO, conversions, and global reliability.

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 caching, and pub/sub. This schema-defined approach lets teams prototype in hours and scale without glue code, extending with computed fields and custom APIs as needs grow.

Harper lets teams pre-render pages for global speed while keeping prices, inventory, and promos live by storing fast-changing values as lightweight attributes and injecting them at request time. By unifying database, cache, messaging, and runtime in a distributed platform, it removes ISR/API complexity, avoids full-page revalidation, and delivers static-level performance without rewrites or stack changes.

Early Hints let browsers start fetching critical assets before HTML arrives, shaving precious time off metrics like Largest Contentful Paint — even if Safari hasn’t caught up yet. With support in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, plus simple fallbacks for others, it’s a low-effort, high-ROI optimization that delivers real-world speed gains today.