Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2

Harper 5.2 attacks database performance on three fronts: a per-worker record cache validated through lock-free atomic version slots, isolated commit scheduling to keep database writes off the application thread, and query planner improvements that route through the shortest available data path.

Faster by Doing Less: How Harper 5.2 Engineers Database Performance

Kris Zyp

Harper 5.2 attacks database performance on three fronts: a per-worker record cache validated through lock-free atomic version slots, isolated commit scheduling to keep database writes off the application thread, and query planner improvements that route through the shortest available data path.

Faster by Doing Less: How Harper 5.2 Engineers Database Performance

Kris Zyp

Harper 5.2 attacks database performance on three fronts: a per-worker record cache validated through lock-free atomic version slots, isolated commit scheduling to keep database writes off the application thread, and query planner improvements that route through the shortest available data path.

Faster by Doing Less: How Harper 5.2 Engineers Database Performance

Kris Zyp

Harper’s inclusion highlights a broader shift toward integrated cloud-native platforms that unify data, caching, messaging, and application logic. The article explains how Harper’s distributed runtime and managed infrastructure reduce operational complexity, improve performance, and support modern applications and AI agents that require fast, reliable access to state, events, and tools.

Harper Recognized as an Honorable Mention in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

Announcement

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Harper’s inclusion highlights a broader shift toward integrated cloud-native platforms that unify data, caching, messaging, and application logic. The article explains how Harper’s distributed runtime and managed infrastructure reduce operational complexity, improve performance, and support modern applications and AI agents that require fast, reliable access to state, events, and tools.

Aleks Haugom

Senior Manager of GTM

Harper’s inclusion highlights a broader shift toward integrated cloud-native platforms that unify data, caching, messaging, and application logic. The article explains how Harper’s distributed runtime and managed infrastructure reduce operational complexity, improve performance, and support modern applications and AI agents that require fast, reliable access to state, events, and tools.

Harper Recognized as an Honorable Mention in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

Harper’s inclusion highlights a broader shift toward integrated cloud-native platforms that unify data, caching, messaging, and application logic. The article explains how Harper’s distributed runtime and managed infrastructure reduce operational complexity, improve performance, and support modern applications and AI agents that require fast, reliable access to state, events, and tools.

Harper Recognized as an Honorable Mention in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

Harper’s inclusion highlights a broader shift toward integrated cloud-native platforms that unify data, caching, messaging, and application logic. The article explains how Harper’s distributed runtime and managed infrastructure reduce operational complexity, improve performance, and support modern applications and AI agents that require fast, reliable access to state, events, and tools.

Harper Recognized as an Honorable Mention in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

Reduce API latency under load with a caching alternative to Redis: an in-process cache that cut response time 100x without adding a new tier.

How to Reduce API Latency Under Load Without Adding Another Cache Tier

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Reduce API latency under load with a caching alternative to Redis: an in-process cache that cut response time 100x without adding a new tier.

Austin Akers

Head of Developer Relations

Reduce API latency under load with a caching alternative to Redis: an in-process cache that cut response time 100x without adding a new tier.

How to Reduce API Latency Under Load Without Adding Another Cache Tier

Austin Akers

Reduce API latency under load with a caching alternative to Redis: an in-process cache that cut response time 100x without adding a new tier.

How to Reduce API Latency Under Load Without Adding Another Cache Tier

Austin Akers

Reduce API latency under load with a caching alternative to Redis: an in-process cache that cut response time 100x without adding a new tier.

How to Reduce API Latency Under Load Without Adding Another Cache Tier

Austin Akers

Harper 5.2 helps architecture and platform leaders improve performance, control infrastructure costs, secure production workloads, and reduce operational complexity by bringing faster data access, agentic capabilities, scheduling, backup, routing, and protection into one unified runtime.

Harper 5.2: More Throughput per Node, Fewer Systems Around It

Product Update

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Harper 5.2 helps architecture and platform leaders improve performance, control infrastructure costs, secure production workloads, and reduce operational complexity by bringing faster data access, agentic capabilities, scheduling, backup, routing, and protection into one unified runtime.

Aleks Haugom

Senior Manager of GTM

Harper 5.2 helps architecture and platform leaders improve performance, control infrastructure costs, secure production workloads, and reduce operational complexity by bringing faster data access, agentic capabilities, scheduling, backup, routing, and protection into one unified runtime.

Harper 5.2: More Throughput per Node, Fewer Systems Around It

Harper 5.2 helps architecture and platform leaders improve performance, control infrastructure costs, secure production workloads, and reduce operational complexity by bringing faster data access, agentic capabilities, scheduling, backup, routing, and protection into one unified runtime.

Harper 5.2: More Throughput per Node, Fewer Systems Around It

Harper 5.2 helps architecture and platform leaders improve performance, control infrastructure costs, secure production workloads, and reduce operational complexity by bringing faster data access, agentic capabilities, scheduling, backup, routing, and protection into one unified runtime.

Harper 5.2: More Throughput per Node, Fewer Systems Around It

Personalization is a data-delivery problem. Every architectural choice reduces to two distances: compute to user, and compute to fresh data. This piece maps five real architectures against both axes, scored on a concrete retailer workload where stale or slow data breaks the business.

5 Architectures for Web Personalization

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Personalization is a data-delivery problem. Every architectural choice reduces to two distances: compute to user, and compute to fresh data. This piece maps five real architectures against both axes, scored on a concrete retailer workload where stale or slow data breaks the business.

Aleks Haugom

Senior Manager of GTM