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Is this the Future of Smart Homes?

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.

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Is this the Future of Smart Homes?

Austin Akers

Head of Developer Relations

at Harper

December 9, 2025

Austin Akers

Head of Developer Relations

at Harper

December 9, 2025

Austin Akers

Head of Developer Relations

at Harper

December 9, 2025

Austin Akers

Head of Developer Relations

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In this conversation, Austin interviews Charlie Gerard, a senior research engineer in cybersecurity, about her innovative project that utilizes gesture recognition and AI to control smart lights. Charlie discusses her inspiration, the technical aspects of her project, and her aspirations for future enhancements. The conversation emphasizes the importance of creativity in programming and the potential for AI to revolutionize smart home technology.

GitHub: https://github.com/charliegerard/harper-hackathon
Demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OLl9MfcKrq72srrIsD8yAVpd7BHO_keK/view?pli=1

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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

Aug 2026

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.

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Faster Vector Search in Harper 5.3 with Native HNSW

Explore vector index in Harper 5.3’s with benchmarks against pgvector and Harper 5.2, and the open-source Node.js package @harperfast/hnsw.

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Explore vector index in Harper 5.3’s with benchmarks against pgvector and Harper 5.2, and the open-source Node.js package @harperfast/hnsw.

Kris Zyp

SVP of Engineering

Comparison

Faster Vector Search in Harper 5.3 with Native HNSW

Explore vector index in Harper 5.3’s with benchmarks against pgvector and Harper 5.2, and the open-source Node.js package @harperfast/hnsw.

Kris Zyp

Oct 2026

Comparison

Faster Vector Search in Harper 5.3 with Native HNSW

Explore vector index in Harper 5.3’s with benchmarks against pgvector and Harper 5.2, and the open-source Node.js package @harperfast/hnsw.

Kris Zyp

Comparison

Faster Vector Search in Harper 5.3 with Native HNSW

Explore vector index in Harper 5.3’s with benchmarks against pgvector and Harper 5.2, and the open-source Node.js package @harperfast/hnsw.

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Is this the Future of Smart Homes?

Is this the Future of Smart Homes?

That’s a Wrap: Harper Hack 2025

That’s a Wrap: Harper Hack 2025

That’s a Wrap: Harper Hack 2025

That’s a Wrap: Harper Hack 2025

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Harper Recognized as an Honorable Mention in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

Harper 5.2: More Throughput per Node, Fewer Systems Around It

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Faster Vector Search in Harper 5.3 with Native HNSW

Faster Vector Search in Harper 5.3 with Native HNSW

Faster Vector Search in Harper 5.3 with Native HNSW

Faster Vector Search in Harper 5.3 with Native HNSW

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How to Build a MOP and Change Management Application Without Stitching Together a Stack

How to Build a MOP and Change Management Application Without Stitching Together a Stack

How to Build a MOP and Change Management Application Without Stitching Together a Stack

The Topic Is the Record: Real-Time Fan-Out Without a Broker, a Bridge, and a Cache

The Topic Is the Record: Real-Time Fan-Out Without a Broker, a Bridge, and a Cache

The Topic Is the Record: Real-Time Fan-Out Without a Broker, a Bridge, and a Cache

The Topic Is the Record: Real-Time Fan-Out Without a Broker, a Bridge, and a Cache

The Distance Problem: Why Centralized Data Paths Cost You Latency, Uptime, and Money

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The Distance Problem: Why Centralized Data Paths Cost You Latency, Uptime, and Money

Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2

Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2

Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2

Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2

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