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Discover how the Harper Redirector component enables ultra-fast, scalable, and centralized URL redirection with 1ms lookups, no external cache or DB needed. Learn how to deploy, manage, and monitor millions of redirects using a simple CSV or API interface.

Deploy Apollo on Harper to create a distributed GraphQL caching service for easier and faster data fetching.

When a major U.S. retailer's origin system went down, Harper seamlessly stepped in as a resilience layer, serving 2 million product page requests from a pre-warmed cache with ultra-low latency (P95 ~2ms), ensuring most customers never noticed the outage. Designed for high availability, Harper’s architecture—featuring pre-rendered full-page HTML, a fused stack for low latency, and geographically distributed nodes—allowed the retailer to preserve 80% of traffic and revenue during the incident. This event highlights the critical role of robust infrastructure in maintaining user experience and business continuity during backend failures.

Get started with Harper 4.5, a composable backend platform combining database, cache, pub/sub, and app logic. Learn how to install Harper, build a GraphQL-backed app, and deploy faster with fewer moving parts and reduced latency.

Discover how token sharing threatens streaming revenue and performance. Learn what it is, why it’s hard to detect, and how leading content providers are stopping it with real-time, per-segment enforcement across CDNs.

The fused stack is a modern software architecture that consolidates key backend components—such as the runtime, database, caching, messaging, and API server—into a single, in-process system, reducing the complexity and overhead of traditional distributed architectures. By eliminating inter-process communication and serialization, it boosts performance, simplifies development, improves resource efficiency, and enhances composability. Unlike old monoliths, fused stacks remain modular and scalable, making them ideal for real-time and high-throughput applications. Platforms like Harper showcase its potential, offering significant gains in speed, cost savings, and sustainability, signaling a promising shift toward more efficient, cloud-native development.

Explore what API caching is, why it matters, and how to apply it in real-world scenarios using REST and GraphQL. Learn practical strategies to improve performance and scalability.

Harper’s collection of turn-key, enterprise-grade components is designed to improve performance and maximize revenue at any scale.

Learn what long tail caching is and how it can drastically improve website performance while reducing cloud costs. Discover why CDNs alone aren’t enough and how Harper helps teams cache more content, including APIs, images, and dynamic pages, for faster load times and lower egress fees.

‍Industry Veterans Andrew Chambers Joins as EVP of Marketing and Michael Proia appointed to EVP of Sales

With Earth Day approaching, this post examines the hidden energy costs of multi-system software architectures. It encourages greener design choices that reduce computing footprints without sacrificing performance.

Effortlessly manage complex APIs across distributed services with unmatched scalability and security.

Manually configuring DDNS providers is suboptimal. Instead, automate rebalancing with an automated rebalancing service.

Harper's Token Ban List decentralizes token revocation across CDNs to prevent misuse.

Redirects are essential for maintaining SEO rankings, avoiding 404 errors, and ensuring a smooth user experience during URL changes, replatforming, or campaigns. Learn the difference between 301, 302, and 307 redirects, why redirect speed affects Core Web Vitals, and how Harper helps teams manage millions of redirects at the edge—with millisecond performance and marketer-friendly tools.

Discover why Blob Storage in Harper 4.5 is a game-changer for modern web development. Learn how Harper’s streaming-first, distributed architecture powers fast, scalable media, e-commerce, and content-heavy apps—straight from an interview with SVP of Engineering Kris Zyp.

Harper 4.5 adds Blob Storage support for unstructured data, enabling faster, media-rich web experiences with improved caching, speed, and scalability.

Harper unveils a cat-inspired rebrand to highlight agility, precision, and scalability—mirroring its powerful data and web performance solutions in a fast-paced digital world.

Learn how to build a blazing-fast, full-stack e-commerce app using Next.js, Harper, and OpenAI. Krista Goralczyk, Principal Solutions Architect at Harper, walks through a live coding session covering setup, dynamic data handling, AI-powered personalization, and performance optimization. Perfect for developers looking to level up their modern web app skills.

Managing a large volume of redirects can be a nightmare for enterprises. Traditional approaches like manually configuring web servers or maintaining custom scriptsare error-prone, time-consuming, and challenging to scale. Harper’s redirect component provides streamlined redirect management with one-millisecond redirect resolution times, even at a massive scale.

Technical SEO is making a comeback. As Google prioritizes speed, mobile-first indexing, and structured data, marketers and devs must align. Explore key metrics, AI's impact, and how to drive buy-in for backend improvements.

Improve your SEO with Harper’s pre-rendering solution. Deliver optimized, JavaScript-free pages to search engine bots for faster indexing, better rankings, and increased traffic—without changing your user experience. Learn how it works!

Learn how to build an Astro extension to host and run Astro apps on Harper. This step-by-step guide covers server-side rendering (SSR), static file handling, and Harper's extensible component system. Watch now to enhance your Astro deployments!

Harper's distributed application saves money and time across the entire software lifecycle. The unified system architecture of Harper delivers database, application, caching, and streaming services in one performant and cost-efficient technology.