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

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.

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.

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.

Discover how Harper’s latest features streamline development, boost performance, and simplify integration. This technical showcase breaks down real-world workflows, powerful updates, and practical tips for building faster, smarter applications.

Learn how MQTT works and see a real-time demo using Harper’s built-in MQTT broker. Discover topics, Pub/Sub, QoS, retained messages, and how Harper simplifies IoT and edge data workflows. Watch how to publish, subscribe, and store sensor data instantly with an easy, developer-friendly setup.

Harper’s unified application platform fuses MQTT, database storage, and real-time logic into one high-performance runtime—eliminating AWS service sprawl, IAM complexity, and Lambda overhead. For real-time systems, Harper delivers simpler architectures, lower latency, reduced costs, and faster developer velocity compared to fragmented AWS IoT Core solutions.

Discover insights from Harper’s Technical Showcase as Charlie and Austin discuss innovative AI projects, database performance, and lessons from the Harper Hackathon in this behind-the-scenes conversation for developers and builders.

Learn how to set up Harper locally using Docker and monitor everything with Grafana. This step-by-step walkthrough shows developers how to launch single-node and clustered Harper environments, deploy the application template, and start building fast. Perfect for anyone exploring high-performance development with Harper’s distributed platform.

Discover how Trent leverages Harper and ConvoIQ to streamline operations, improve data workflows, and boost productivity. This deep-dive conversation highlights real-world use cases, automation tips, and smarter tech strategies.

Discover how Harper’s unified application platform and AI-first development tools make it possible for anyone—even non-developers—to build and deploy real apps. In this Thanksgiving story, follow the journey of creating a fun Pac-Man-style game using Google’s Antigravity IDE, Gemini, Claude, and Harper’s open-source templates. Learn how Harper simplifies backend development, accelerates AI-driven coding, and unlocks creativity with seamless deployment on Harper Fabric. Play the game and experience the power of Harper for modern app development.

Modernize your BigQuery architecture with Harper. Replace Redis and boilerplate APIs with a unified, low-latency data layer built for real-time delivery.

Discover how Harper Hack winners Colin and Josh built MELL, an AI-powered community reporting app. Learn about their inspiration, tech stack, UX approach, and how AI streamlines issue reporting for local communities.

Harper’s unified pub/sub architecture delivers real-time data, low-latency replication, and multi-protocol streaming for AI and edge applications. Learn how database-native MQTT, WebSockets, and SSE replace legacy brokers and pipelines, enabling millisecond decisions, resilient edge deployments, and globally consistent state for next-generation intelligent systems.

Distributed microliths unify data, logic, and execution into one high-performance runtime, eliminating microservice latency and complexity. By replicating a single coherent process across regions, they deliver sub-millisecond responses, active-active resilience, and edge-level speed. Platforms like Harper prove this model reduces infrastructure, simplifies operations, and scales globally with ease.

See how to take a local Harper app to a distributed, multi-node cloud cluster with simple deployment steps, built-in scaling, and an MQTT real-world demo.

Compare Harper and Prerender.io to understand key differences in performance, architecture, SEO impact, and use cases for modern web and e-commerce apps.

HarperHack 2025 brought developers together to build incredible apps in just two weeks, showcasing the power of Harper’s unified, open-source platform.

Learn how to build and manage applications in Harper’s Fabric environment. Solution Architect Ivan Judson walks through connecting cloud and self-hosted instances, demoing a basic app with Harper’s distributed app platform

Discover how Harper helped a leading global fashion retailer achieve 70% faster page loads, a 60% reduction in TTFB, and stronger Core Web Vitals through edge optimization and intelligent caching in this performance-focused case study.

Discover how Harper’s new pre-rendering template boosts website SEO and performance. Learn how edge delivery, orchestration, and Puppeteer rendering enable lightning-fast static pages and seamless scalability for modern React applications.

Ivan walks through installing Harper, showing how to set up, configure, and run your first project. This demo highlights the simplicity and speed of getting started with Harper for high-performance distributed applications.