Click Below to Get the Code

Browse, clone, and build from real-world templates powered by Harper.
News
GitHub Logo

Stephen Goldberg, CEO of HarperDB Honored with 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award

Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by University of Colorado Denver Business School. Goldberg's commitment to ethics and values contributes to HarperDB's success and remarkable 100% growth.
Award
News
Award

Stephen Goldberg, CEO of HarperDB Honored with 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award

Harper
at Harper
January 8, 2023
Harper
at Harper
January 8, 2023
Harper
at Harper
January 8, 2023
January 8, 2023
Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by University of Colorado Denver Business School. Goldberg's commitment to ethics and values contributes to HarperDB's success and remarkable 100% growth.
Harper

[Denver, CO], [January 9, 2023] - Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, has been awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by the University of Colorado Denver Business School. This prestigious recognition celebrates Goldberg's ethical leadership and commitment to integrity within the technology industry.

Goldberg's extensive career in the technology industry, including roles as CTO and CEO. As the CEO of HarperDB, he fosters a culture of integrity, prioritizing trust, accountability, and transparency. Under his guidance, HarperDB has experienced remarkable 100% growth in the past year.

Founded in 2017, HarperDB ground-breaking development platform for global enterprise customers, overcoming the complexities of distributed data, event streaming, and scalability. Goldberg's dedication to ethics and values has played a vital role in the company's success. He ensures employee well-being, promotes inclusion through company-wide meetings, and emphasizes core beliefs in decision-making processes.

Expressing his gratitude for the award, Goldberg stated, "I am grateful and humbled to receive the Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award. This award is extremely important to me because, in today’s business culture, nothing is more important than a strong sense of ethics and core values."

The University of Colorado Denver Business School's recognition of Stephen Goldberg as the Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year reinforces his outstanding commitment to ethics and the long-term success of HarperDB.

About HarperDB

HarperDB is a globally-distributed edge application platform. It reduces complexity, increases performance, and lowers costs by combining user-defined applications, a high-performance database, and an enterprise-grade message queue into a single package. The platform offers unlimited horizontal scale at the click of a button, and synchronizes data across all the nodes in a cluster in milliseconds. HarperDB simplifies the process of delivering applications and the data that drives them to the edge, which dramatically improves both the user experience and total cost of ownership for large-scale applications. Deploying HarperDB on global infrastructure enables a CDN-like solution for enterprise data and applications.

[Denver, CO], [January 9, 2023] - Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, has been awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by the University of Colorado Denver Business School. This prestigious recognition celebrates Goldberg's ethical leadership and commitment to integrity within the technology industry.

Goldberg's extensive career in the technology industry, including roles as CTO and CEO. As the CEO of HarperDB, he fosters a culture of integrity, prioritizing trust, accountability, and transparency. Under his guidance, HarperDB has experienced remarkable 100% growth in the past year.

Founded in 2017, HarperDB ground-breaking development platform for global enterprise customers, overcoming the complexities of distributed data, event streaming, and scalability. Goldberg's dedication to ethics and values has played a vital role in the company's success. He ensures employee well-being, promotes inclusion through company-wide meetings, and emphasizes core beliefs in decision-making processes.

Expressing his gratitude for the award, Goldberg stated, "I am grateful and humbled to receive the Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year Award. This award is extremely important to me because, in today’s business culture, nothing is more important than a strong sense of ethics and core values."

The University of Colorado Denver Business School's recognition of Stephen Goldberg as the Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year reinforces his outstanding commitment to ethics and the long-term success of HarperDB.

About HarperDB

HarperDB is a globally-distributed edge application platform. It reduces complexity, increases performance, and lowers costs by combining user-defined applications, a high-performance database, and an enterprise-grade message queue into a single package. The platform offers unlimited horizontal scale at the click of a button, and synchronizes data across all the nodes in a cluster in milliseconds. HarperDB simplifies the process of delivering applications and the data that drives them to the edge, which dramatically improves both the user experience and total cost of ownership for large-scale applications. Deploying HarperDB on global infrastructure enables a CDN-like solution for enterprise data and applications.

Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by University of Colorado Denver Business School. Goldberg's commitment to ethics and values contributes to HarperDB's success and remarkable 100% growth.

Download

White arrow pointing right
Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by University of Colorado Denver Business School. Goldberg's commitment to ethics and values contributes to HarperDB's success and remarkable 100% growth.

Download

White arrow pointing right
Stephen Goldberg, CEO and Co-Founder of HarperDB, awarded the 2023 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year by University of Colorado Denver Business School. Goldberg's commitment to ethics and values contributes to HarperDB's success and remarkable 100% growth.

Download

White arrow pointing right

Explore Recent Resources

Media Coverage
GitHub Logo

Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2

InfoQ examines benchmark results comparing co-located and serverless architectures, highlighting faster personalized-data paths, serverless advantages under heavy fan-out, and the performance implications of eliminating network hops between services at scale.
Media Coverage
InfoQ examines benchmark results comparing co-located and serverless architectures, highlighting faster personalized-data paths, serverless advantages under heavy fan-out, and the performance implications of eliminating network hops between services at scale.
Renato Losio, Staff Editor at InfoQ
Renato Losio
InfoQ Staff Editor
Media Coverage

Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2

InfoQ examines benchmark results comparing co-located and serverless architectures, highlighting faster personalized-data paths, serverless advantages under heavy fan-out, and the performance implications of eliminating network hops between services at scale.
Renato Losio
Aug 2026
Media Coverage

Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2

InfoQ examines benchmark results comparing co-located and serverless architectures, highlighting faster personalized-data paths, serverless advantages under heavy fan-out, and the performance implications of eliminating network hops between services at scale.
Renato Losio
Media Coverage

Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2

InfoQ examines benchmark results comparing co-located and serverless architectures, highlighting faster personalized-data paths, serverless advantages under heavy fan-out, and the performance implications of eliminating network hops between services at scale.
Renato Losio
Blog
GitHub Logo

Faster by Doing Less: How Harper 5.2 Engineers Database Performance

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.
Cache
Blog
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.
Person with very short blonde hair wearing a light gray button‑up shirt, standing with arms crossed and smiling outdoors with foliage behind.
Kris Zyp
SVP of Engineering
Blog

Faster by Doing Less: How Harper 5.2 Engineers Database Performance

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.
Kris Zyp
Aug 2026
Blog

Faster by Doing Less: How Harper 5.2 Engineers Database Performance

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.
Kris Zyp
Blog

Faster by Doing Less: How Harper 5.2 Engineers Database Performance

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.
Kris Zyp
News
GitHub Logo

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.
Announcement
News
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.
Person with short dark hair and moustache, wearing a colorful plaid shirt, smiling outdoors in a forested mountain landscape.
Aleks Haugom
Senior Manager of GTM
News

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.
Aleks Haugom
Aug 2026
News

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.
Aleks Haugom
News

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.
Aleks Haugom
News
GitHub Logo

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.
Product Update
News
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.
Person with short dark hair and moustache, wearing a colorful plaid shirt, smiling outdoors in a forested mountain landscape.
Aleks Haugom
Senior Manager of GTM
News

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.
Aleks Haugom
Aug 2026
News

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.
Aleks Haugom
News

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.
Aleks Haugom