PART 2 | Live Coding an Astro Extension on Harper

Explore a real-time pub/sub architecture where MQTT, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, and REST work together with persistent data storage in one end-to-end system, enabling real-time interoperability, stateful messaging, and simplified service-to-device and browser communication.

Real-Time Pub/Sub Without the "Stack"

Ivan R. Judson, Ph.D.

Jan 2026

Explore a real-time pub/sub architecture where MQTT, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, and REST work together with persistent data storage in one end-to-end system, enabling real-time interoperability, stateful messaging, and simplified service-to-device and browser communication.

Real-Time Pub/Sub Without the "Stack"

Ivan R. Judson, Ph.D.

Explore a real-time pub/sub architecture where MQTT, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, and REST work together with persistent data storage in one end-to-end system, enabling real-time interoperability, stateful messaging, and simplified service-to-device and browser communication.

Real-Time Pub/Sub Without the "Stack"

Ivan R. Judson, Ph.D.

Join Debbie O’Brien on the Select * Podcast as she shares insights on open source, and developer experience, and family.

Open Source, Cycling and What's Next with Debbie O'Brien

Select*

Podcast

Join Debbie O’Brien on the Select * Podcast as she shares insights on open source, and developer experience, and family.

Austin Akers

Head of Developer Relations

Join Debbie O’Brien on the Select * Podcast as she shares insights on open source, and developer experience, and family.

Open Source, Cycling and What's Next with Debbie O'Brien

Austin Akers

Jan 2026

Join Debbie O’Brien on the Select * Podcast as she shares insights on open source, and developer experience, and family.

Open Source, Cycling and What's Next with Debbie O'Brien

Austin Akers

Join Debbie O’Brien on the Select * Podcast as she shares insights on open source, and developer experience, and family.

Open Source, Cycling and What's Next with Debbie O'Brien

Austin Akers

Harper is honored as a Built In 2026 Best Startup to Work For and Best Place to Work in Colorado, recognizing its people-first culture, strong employee experience, and values of accountability, authenticity, empowerment, focus, and transparency that help teams thrive and grow together.

Harper Recognized on Built In’s 2026 Best Places to Work in Colorado Lists

Announcement

News

Harper is honored as a Built In 2026 Best Startup to Work For and Best Place to Work in Colorado, recognizing its people-first culture, strong employee experience, and values of accountability, authenticity, empowerment, focus, and transparency that help teams thrive and grow together.

Harper

Harper is honored as a Built In 2026 Best Startup to Work For and Best Place to Work in Colorado, recognizing its people-first culture, strong employee experience, and values of accountability, authenticity, empowerment, focus, and transparency that help teams thrive and grow together.

Harper Recognized on Built In’s 2026 Best Places to Work in Colorado Lists

Harper

Jan 2026

Harper is honored as a Built In 2026 Best Startup to Work For and Best Place to Work in Colorado, recognizing its people-first culture, strong employee experience, and values of accountability, authenticity, empowerment, focus, and transparency that help teams thrive and grow together.

Harper Recognized on Built In’s 2026 Best Places to Work in Colorado Lists

Harper

Harper is honored as a Built In 2026 Best Startup to Work For and Best Place to Work in Colorado, recognizing its people-first culture, strong employee experience, and values of accountability, authenticity, empowerment, focus, and transparency that help teams thrive and grow together.

Harper Recognized on Built In’s 2026 Best Places to Work in Colorado Lists

Harper

A detailed performance benchmark comparing a traditional microservices architecture with Harper’s unified runtime. Using a real, fully functional e-commerce application, this report examines latency, scalability, and architectural overhead across homepage, category, and product pages, highlighting the real-world performance implications between two different styles of distributed systems.

Harper vs. Standard Microservices: Performance Comparison Benchmark

Comparison

A detailed performance benchmark comparing a traditional microservices architecture with Harper’s unified runtime. Using a real, fully functional e-commerce application, this report examines latency, scalability, and architectural overhead across homepage, category, and product pages, highlighting the real-world performance implications between two different styles of distributed systems.

Aleks Haugom

Senior Manager of GTM & Marketing

A detailed performance benchmark comparing a traditional microservices architecture with Harper’s unified runtime. Using a real, fully functional e-commerce application, this report examines latency, scalability, and architectural overhead across homepage, category, and product pages, highlighting the real-world performance implications between two different styles of distributed systems.

Harper vs. Standard Microservices: Performance Comparison Benchmark

Aleks Haugom

Dec 2025

A detailed performance benchmark comparing a traditional microservices architecture with Harper’s unified runtime. Using a real, fully functional e-commerce application, this report examines latency, scalability, and architectural overhead across homepage, category, and product pages, highlighting the real-world performance implications between two different styles of distributed systems.

Harper vs. Standard Microservices: Performance Comparison Benchmark

Aleks Haugom

A detailed performance benchmark comparing a traditional microservices architecture with Harper’s unified runtime. Using a real, fully functional e-commerce application, this report examines latency, scalability, and architectural overhead across homepage, category, and product pages, highlighting the real-world performance implications between two different styles of distributed systems.

Harper vs. Standard Microservices: Performance Comparison Benchmark

Aleks Haugom

Learn how to build a unified real-time backbone using Harper with MQTT, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events. This guide shows how to broker messages, fan out real-time data, and persist events in one runtime—simplifying real-time system architecture for IoT, dashboards, and event-driven applications.

A Simpler Real-Time Messaging Architecture with MQTT, WebSockets, and SSE

Harper Learn

Tutorial

Learn how to build a unified real-time backbone using Harper with MQTT, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events. This guide shows how to broker messages, fan out real-time data, and persist events in one runtime—simplifying real-time system architecture for IoT, dashboards, and event-driven applications.

Ivan R. Judson, Ph.D.

Distinguished Solution Architect