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Modern Web Platform for Latency-Sensitive Applications

Harper is a unified, globally distributed web platform that combines database, cache, messaging, and application logic into a single runtime, eliminating the complexity of traditional multi-service stacks. Designed for latency-sensitive applications, it delivers ultra-low-latency performance, massive scalability, and seamless global synchronization—all in one simplified, developer-friendly architecture.
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Modern Web Platform for Latency-Sensitive Applications

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Harper
July 15, 2025
By
Harper
July 15, 2025
By
Harper
July 15, 2025
July 15, 2025
Harper is a unified, globally distributed web platform that combines database, cache, messaging, and application logic into a single runtime, eliminating the complexity of traditional multi-service stacks. Designed for latency-sensitive applications, it delivers ultra-low-latency performance, massive scalability, and seamless global synchronization—all in one simplified, developer-friendly architecture.
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The Problem

Today’s SaaS platforms are buried under layers of infrastructure: separate services for databases, caches, queues, APIs, and edge delivery. It’s complex, brittle, expensive, and slow to evolve.

Harper’s Paradigm Shift

Harper integrates the database, cache, messaging, and application functions into a single runtime designed for deployment and synchronization across regions. The distributed yet unified architecture creates highly efficient services that deliver extremely high-throughput at ultra-low-latency. Creating easy-to-manage services that can scale to efficiently manage 100s of terabytes of data. 

  • Unified Architecture – One binary handles data, caching, messaging, and logic, simplifying development.
  • Distributed by Design – Deploy globally and synchronize data across regions in milliseconds. 
  • Higher Throughput by Design – Harper eliminates network hops and intermediary serialization steps, freeing bandwidth for more RPS with less overhead.
  • Low-Latency In-Process APIs – Access your data directly through REST, GraphQL, or custom endpoints, running inside the same process as your persistent and in-memory data stores.
  • Boilerplate Code Eliminated – Define data schemas with an @export directive to auto-generate REST and real-time endpoints (MQTT, WebSocket). 
  • Real-Time Native – Data updates instantly trigger messages, no separate broker or handler required.

Proven Impact

  • 10× - 250× faster performance
  • 40% - 90%  lower costs
  • $100 Billion in annual digital commerce revenue relies on Harper today.
  • Example Deployment: Pre-rendered product page delivery at scale - 26K RPS with 1.36 millisecond p95 Harper duration.

Why It Matters

Performance isn’t a luxury—it’s a growth engine. Harper reduces latency and complexity, unlocking a better user experience, faster development, and higher throughput. With fewer layers, teams ship faster, operations stay lean, and every interaction feels instant. The result: lower infrastructure costs, happier users, and accelerated revenue.

This is how the modern web should work.

The Problem

Today’s SaaS platforms are buried under layers of infrastructure: separate services for databases, caches, queues, APIs, and edge delivery. It’s complex, brittle, expensive, and slow to evolve.

Harper’s Paradigm Shift

Harper integrates the database, cache, messaging, and application functions into a single runtime designed for deployment and synchronization across regions. The distributed yet unified architecture creates highly efficient services that deliver extremely high-throughput at ultra-low-latency. Creating easy-to-manage services that can scale to efficiently manage 100s of terabytes of data. 

  • Unified Architecture – One binary handles data, caching, messaging, and logic, simplifying development.
  • Distributed by Design – Deploy globally and synchronize data across regions in milliseconds. 
  • Higher Throughput by Design – Harper eliminates network hops and intermediary serialization steps, freeing bandwidth for more RPS with less overhead.
  • Low-Latency In-Process APIs – Access your data directly through REST, GraphQL, or custom endpoints, running inside the same process as your persistent and in-memory data stores.
  • Boilerplate Code Eliminated – Define data schemas with an @export directive to auto-generate REST and real-time endpoints (MQTT, WebSocket). 
  • Real-Time Native – Data updates instantly trigger messages, no separate broker or handler required.

Proven Impact

  • 10× - 250× faster performance
  • 40% - 90%  lower costs
  • $100 Billion in annual digital commerce revenue relies on Harper today.
  • Example Deployment: Pre-rendered product page delivery at scale - 26K RPS with 1.36 millisecond p95 Harper duration.

Why It Matters

Performance isn’t a luxury—it’s a growth engine. Harper reduces latency and complexity, unlocking a better user experience, faster development, and higher throughput. With fewer layers, teams ship faster, operations stay lean, and every interaction feels instant. The result: lower infrastructure costs, happier users, and accelerated revenue.

This is how the modern web should work.

Harper is a unified, globally distributed web platform that combines database, cache, messaging, and application logic into a single runtime, eliminating the complexity of traditional multi-service stacks. Designed for latency-sensitive applications, it delivers ultra-low-latency performance, massive scalability, and seamless global synchronization—all in one simplified, developer-friendly architecture.

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Harper is a unified, globally distributed web platform that combines database, cache, messaging, and application logic into a single runtime, eliminating the complexity of traditional multi-service stacks. Designed for latency-sensitive applications, it delivers ultra-low-latency performance, massive scalability, and seamless global synchronization—all in one simplified, developer-friendly architecture.

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Harper is a unified, globally distributed web platform that combines database, cache, messaging, and application logic into a single runtime, eliminating the complexity of traditional multi-service stacks. Designed for latency-sensitive applications, it delivers ultra-low-latency performance, massive scalability, and seamless global synchronization—all in one simplified, developer-friendly architecture.

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