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PART 2 | Live Coding an Astro Extension on Harper

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!

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PART 2 | Live Coding an Astro Extension on Harper

Ethan Arrowood

Head of Open Source

at Harper

March 18, 2025

Ethan Arrowood

Head of Open Source

at Harper

March 18, 2025

Ethan Arrowood

Head of Open Source

at Harper

March 18, 2025

Ethan Arrowood

Head of Open Source

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Part 2 is here! In this video, Harper developer Ethan Arrowood dives deeper into the Astro extension for Harper. He refines the build process, tackles middleware challenges, and optimizes Harper’s worker threads for efficient deployments. If you're looking to master Astro and Harper integration, this walkthrough offers hands-on insights and problem-solving strategies. Watch now to level up your Astro deployment skills!

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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

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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

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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.

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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PART 2 | Live Coding an Astro Extension on Harper

PART 2 | Live Coding an Astro Extension on Harper

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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

What If Your AI App Didn’t Need All Those Services?

What If Your AI App Didn’t Need All Those Services?

What If Your AI App Didn’t Need All Those Services?

What If Your AI App Didn’t Need All Those Services?

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

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

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

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

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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