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Blog | Google Erased $3 Billion in Market Cap - and Showed that the Top 10 is Everything Google’s deprecation of a single URL parameter erased billions from Reddit’s valuation—proving SEO’s power in the AI era. Learn why visibility, structured content, and technical optimization remain…

A single URL parameter change by Google erased billions from Reddit's market cap and proved the top 10 still rule search.

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#SEO #AEO #TechMarketing

Harper Hack '25 Experience an online hackathon that challenges you to code, design, and innovate using Harper with AI integrated. Push the limits of what applications can achieve, gain visibility for your work, and…

🚀 Harper Hack ’25 kicks off tomorrow!
Join us Oct 21 at 10 a.m. MT for the kickoff event 🎉

Compete in our 2-week virtual hackathon celebrating Harper’s open-source future — and win a trip to Tokyo (🎌 up to $5K value)!

👉 Sign up now: buff.ly/33cu3bW

🎉 Congrats to Ethan Arrowood for winning the Leading by Example JavaScriptLandia Award from the @openjsf at #JSConf 2025!

Ethan’s impact spans the JS ecosystem — from @nodejs, Undici, and WinterCG to his leadership within OpenJS and contributions to Harper’s open-source efforts.

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🚀 Big news from #JSConf!

Harper is now open source!🎉

Stephen Goldberg & @kriszyp.bsky.social dropped the announcement live on stage, and our “High Octane. Open Source.” coffee bar kept devs buzzing. ☕️

Dive in → harper.fast/start

Bags packed. Coffee secured. Demos ready.

Harper lands at #JSConf2025 tomorrow and we can’t wait to meet you.

📍 Chesapeake Bay, Oct 14–16

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#JavaScriptCommunity

JSConf 2025 is almost here 👀

Harper’s sponsoring again, and we’re fired up for the chaos: talks, devs, ideas, and coffee.

📍 Chesapeake Bay, Oct 14–16

🎟️ buff.ly/Vhti0zB #JavaScript #OpenJS

The real JSConf stack:
☑ JavaScript
☑ Friends
☑ Conference coffee

Harper’s proud to sponsor #JSConf2025—let’s code, connect, and caffeinate.📍 Chesapeake Bay, Oct 14–16

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#JavaScript

Skip the Boilerplate: How a Schema Can Power Your Entire Stack Most apps start simple then accrete APIs, auth, caching, and realtime—Harper flips that by making your schema the app: define tables and relationships and you instantly get generated APIs, integrated…

Skip the boilerplate. Start building faster. ⚡️

With Harper, your schema isn’t just data—it is your app. Define it once and get APIs, caching & real-time events out of the box.

See how schema-defined apps change how you build ↓
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Save ~1s off LCP with a tweak you can ship in an afternoon ⚡️

That’s the power of Early Hints (HTTP 103): browsers fetch critical assets before HTML arrives.

✅ Chrome, Edge, Firefox: supported
⛔ Safari: not yet

Even partial adoption = big wins.
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📌 If you missed them: Two new Harper guides

🛒 E-commerce APIs - buff.ly/jlYTsCd
📅 Calendar APIs - buff.ly/fsw6Fb5

One schema → full functionality ⚡

📌 If you missed it yesterday: Our guide to building calendar apps with Harper

One GraphQL schema gets you scheduling, conflict detection, and real-time updates without managing multiple services. 📅

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🚨 NEW ARTICLE ✨

We just wrote about building calendar apps with Harper. One GraphQL schema gets you scheduling, conflict detection, and real-time updates without managing multiple services. 📅

Read here ➡️ buff.ly/lQQlLW2

Building a Product Catalog and Shopping Cart with Harper's GraphQL API | Tutorial Building e-commerce features with traditional stacks means dealing with complexity that grows with every new requirement. You start with a product database and API server. Then you need Redis for…

📌 ICYMI: Our e-commerce + Harper guide from last week

Traditional setup:
❌ 6 different services 🤯
❌ Complex coordination 😅

Harper:
✅ One schema file 📝
✅ Everything generated ⚡

Read here 👇

🚨 NEW ARTICLE ✨

Traditional e-commerce setup:
❌ Redis + Kafka + crossed fingers 🤞
❌ 3am debugging sessions 😴
❌ Complex service coordination 🤯

Harper's approach:
✅ One schema file 📝
✅ Everything auto-generated ⚡
✅ Just works 🎯

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Technical SEO 101: Early Hints | On-Demand Webinar In the latest Harper SEO Series session, experts from SearchSide and Akamai explored how implementing Early Hints (HTTP 103) can dramatically speed up website load times and boost SEO performance.…

📢 ICYMI: One of the fastest ways to boost site speed and SEO is Early Hints (HTTP 103). The full replay is live.

✅ Load pages before rendering starts
✅ Rank higher & convert more
✅ Simple to implement
✅ Crush Core Web Vitals

Watch now → buff.ly/TUFsgn3

#TechnicalSEO #EarlyHints #WebPerformance

Harper is sponsoring JSConf North America 2025 🎉

We’re all in on this amazing JavaScript community—ideas, hallway chaos, and all.

🗓️ Oct 14–16
📍 Chesapeake Bay, MD
👉 buff.ly/Vhti0zB #OpenJS

Redirects are boring. Or… are they?
With Akamai + Harper:
✱ Redirects resolve fast
✱ 103 Early Hints for instant preloads
✱ LCP improved by over 1s

No origin load. No delay. Just speed.
🔗 Dive in: buff.ly/D7kzq8o

🚨 Webinar tomorrow!

Learn how Early Hints can speed up LCP & TTFB.

Join us Tues 12pm ET/9am PT with Harper’s Jaxon Repp, Akamai’s Brian Apley & SearchSide’s Martin Spiek.

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Faster product pages = more revenue. But how much more?

1️⃣ Enter your traffic, CVR & LCP
2️⃣ See how seconds = $$$
3️⃣ Learn why Harper beats legacy backends

👉 Try the calculator: buff.ly/PVFhT7F

Then get a free performance analysis.

🚨 NEW ARTICLE ✨

Why social platforms need 5 services for a follow button? 🤯

Harper combines database + cache + messaging in one process ⚡

Sub-millisecond response times 🚀

Building social graphs with Harper's API 👇
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Most teams fail with Early Hints because they don't know where they fit or how to deliver them from the edge.

Join us Aug 12 to learn what they do, when they work, and where CDNs/frameworks are going.

🎟️ Free Webinar → buff.ly/QucQujF

E‑commerce teams shouldn’t have to choose between speed and freshness.

This blog shows how Harper lets you prerender static content and inject live data at request time—for faster, fresher pages at scale.

Read more → buff.ly/AXzyBk1
#WebPerf #Ecommerce

You can clone a key fob with a $100 device.
That’s RF hacking—and it’s just one challenge at DEF CON’s RF CTF.

Chris Nelson breaks down how it works, how to get started, and why the RF Village is the friendliest place to learn.

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#DEFCON #RFHacking #Cybersecurity

Decentralize to Succeed: The Counterintuitive Key to Enterprise Data Platforms Introduction: Enterprise leaders often assume that managing data at scale means more centralization, more technology, and more data hoarding.

Centralized data platforms are breaking down. In his latest piece, Harper Field CTO Jaxon Repp explains why decentralization—done right—is the real key to agility, governance, and insight.
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GraphQL adoption is exploding, and so are cloud and CDN costs.

The issue isn’t the query—it’s how you serve it.

Here’s how to avoid the hidden costs:🔗 buff.ly/MlRWVWG

Riverside.FM | Webinar

Want your site as fast as the top e-commerce brands? 🏎️

Early Hints let browsers load key assets before your backend finishes processing.

Join Harper’s Jaxon Repp on Aug 12 @ 12pm ET to learn how this boosts SEO & speed.

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Every 100ms of latency costs Amazon 1% in revenue.
If your site loads in 2.5s, you're bleeding money.

➤ Fast = Findable (SEO)
➤ Fast = Clickable (ads)
➤ Fast = Buyable (CRO)

Harper’s EVP Drew Chambers explains why performance is a growth channel, not just infra.
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#ecommerce #web

SEO isn’t just content anymore.

As Google leans into performance-driven search, technical SEO is making a comeback.

Speed, structure, mobile-first design — they’re not just dev concerns. They’re your growth engine.

🎥 with Drew Chambers

#SEO #TechnicalSEO #CoreWebVitals

Vector Sharding: A Predictive, Latency-First Data-Placement Paradigm No, not that kind of vector... or that kind of sharding.

What if the next leap in latency reduction isn’t optimization, but prediction?

Harper’s Jaxon Repp introduces Vector Sharding: using client vectors to forecast data needs.

Not just speed. Awareness.

Rethinking data placement? Start here 🧠

Google’s new SEO north star? INP—Interaction to Next Paint.
It measures how responsive your site feels in real life.

What’s inside:
➤ Why INP replaced FID
➤ What impacts your score
➤ How to improve it

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#SEO #CoreWebVitals #INP