Building a Smarter 311 App

5x Faster HNSW Vector Search with int8 Quantization

Harper 5.1 adds int8 quantization, dropping index size by roughly 3x, search throughput improves roughly 5x, and p99 latency falls from ~9s to ~0.5s under load. The tradeoff is approximately 1% recall degradation before reranking.

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Harper 5.1 adds int8 quantization, dropping index size by roughly 3x, search throughput improves roughly 5x, and p99 latency falls from ~9s to ~0.5s under load. The tradeoff is approximately 1% recall degradation before reranking.

Kris Zyp

SVP of Engineering

Tutorial

Comparison

Harper runs live, personalized apps 4–14x faster than Vercel by unifying data, logic, cache, and messaging in one runtime.

Harper

Comparison

Vercel vs. Harper Benchmark Test

Harper runs live, personalized apps 4–14x faster than Vercel by unifying data, logic, cache, and messaging in one runtime.

Harper

Jun 2026

Comparison

Vercel vs. Harper Benchmark Test

Harper runs live, personalized apps 4–14x faster than Vercel by unifying data, logic, cache, and messaging in one runtime.

Harper

Comparison

Vercel vs. Harper Benchmark Test

Harper runs live, personalized apps 4–14x faster than Vercel by unifying data, logic, cache, and messaging in one runtime.

Harper

Blog

Agentic Engineering Needs an Opinion: Why Scale Starts with Architecture

AI coding works in a sandbox because the environment is trivially narrow. Real systems have history, constraints, and blast radius. Coding agents make sound decisions only when the architecture is explicit and shared. Opinion isn't a constraint on agentic engineering, it's what makes it possible at scale.

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AI coding works in a sandbox because the environment is trivially narrow. Real systems have history, constraints, and blast radius. Coding agents make sound decisions only when the architecture is explicit and shared. Opinion isn't a constraint on agentic engineering, it's what makes it possible at scale.

Stephen Goldberg

CEO & Co-Founder

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Agentic Engineering Needs an Opinion: Why Scale Starts with Architecture

AI coding works in a sandbox because the environment is trivially narrow. Real systems have history, constraints, and blast radius. Coding agents make sound decisions only when the architecture is explicit and shared. Opinion isn't a constraint on agentic engineering, it's what makes it possible at scale.

Stephen Goldberg

Jun 2026

Blog

Agentic Engineering Needs an Opinion: Why Scale Starts with Architecture

AI coding works in a sandbox because the environment is trivially narrow. Real systems have history, constraints, and blast radius. Coding agents make sound decisions only when the architecture is explicit and shared. Opinion isn't a constraint on agentic engineering, it's what makes it possible at scale.

Stephen Goldberg

Blog

Agentic Engineering Needs an Opinion: Why Scale Starts with Architecture

AI coding works in a sandbox because the environment is trivially narrow. Real systems have history, constraints, and blast radius. Coding agents make sound decisions only when the architecture is explicit and shared. Opinion isn't a constraint on agentic engineering, it's what makes it possible at scale.

Stephen Goldberg

Blog

Building a Cozy Sandbox Game on Harper

A nature-restoration game with six biomes, 150 animals, and a real food web — built with a single Harper component as the entire backend. One YAML file wires the database, API, content seeder, and static host. The same binary ships offline on itch.io.

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A nature-restoration game with six biomes, 150 animals, and a real food web — built with a single Harper component as the entire backend. One YAML file wires the database, API, content seeder, and static host. The same binary ships offline on itch.io.

Bailey Dunning

Forward Deployed Engineer

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Building a Cozy Sandbox Game on Harper

A nature-restoration game with six biomes, 150 animals, and a real food web — built with a single Harper component as the entire backend. One YAML file wires the database, API, content seeder, and static host. The same binary ships offline on itch.io.

Bailey Dunning

Jun 2026

Blog

Building a Cozy Sandbox Game on Harper

A nature-restoration game with six biomes, 150 animals, and a real food web — built with a single Harper component as the entire backend. One YAML file wires the database, API, content seeder, and static host. The same binary ships offline on itch.io.

Bailey Dunning

Blog

Building a Cozy Sandbox Game on Harper

A nature-restoration game with six biomes, 150 animals, and a real food web — built with a single Harper component as the entire backend. One YAML file wires the database, API, content seeder, and static host. The same binary ships offline on itch.io.

Bailey Dunning

Blog

Your Website was Built for Humans. AI Needs Something Cleaner.

The web spent a decade optimizing for browsers. JavaScript-heavy rendering, dynamic CMS templates, and client-side hydration made pages beautiful and machines blind. AI answer engines retrieve, parse, and cite content directly. If your best content is trapped behind a render cycle, a cleaner source wins.

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The web spent a decade optimizing for browsers. JavaScript-heavy rendering, dynamic CMS templates, and client-side hydration made pages beautiful and machines blind. AI answer engines retrieve, parse, and cite content directly. If your best content is trapped behind a render cycle, a cleaner source wins.