Technology stacks like LAMP, MEAN, and MERN have been a boon to developer productivity. With just four components you have everything you need to develop web applications quickly and easily. And while these stacks do provide a robust framework out of the box, they are not without complexity, and aren’t always designed to scale. As … Continued
About a week has passed since the first version of Bun (v.0.1.x) was made publicly available. Introductory benchmarks are touting three-times the performance of Node and Deno for HTTP requests per second 🤯. In this article, Kris Zyp, a software engineer at HarperDB with decades of experience in the JavaScript open-source community, will share his … Continued
HarperDB is quickly becoming the database of choice for developers and enterprise organizations alike. HarperDB is a data and application platform that is independent of hardware and network providers, completely agnostic of where it resides, and peer-to-peer. It can handle 20k writes/second and 120k reads/second for a single node, with global data replication in under … Continued
I’m a new software developer here at HarperDB. So like many of you visiting the blog, I’ve got fresh eyes on this product. Two weeks ago, my sights were set on HarperDB’s newest feature, Custom Functions. My task was to create a plug-and-play REST API template with our Custom Functions. As you read this I … Continued
Introducing the newest innovation from HarperDB: HarperDB Custom Functions. With the release of HarperDB 3.1 users are able to define their own API endpoints within HarperDB. What does that mean for you? HarperDB grows from a distributed database to a distributed application development platform with integrated persistence – one that can serve as a single solution for … Continued
New tech terms and lingo are constantly popping up in the development world. It’s hard to keep up! People also love to share and debate about their favorite tech stacks and tools / frameworks. That said, there is no ultimate right or wrong answer when it comes to choosing a tech stack because it really … Continued
A database, or perhaps any technology, is only as powerful as it is flexible. Some technologies and tools have great functionality but they make it difficult for the user- forcing them to adapt something on their end in order to access and/or accommodate the technology. While this may work for some folks, that’s not how … Continued