Harper, bringing next-level web performance to a digital-first world, is releasing version 4.5 of its global application delivery platform, including several new features for building, scaling, and running high-performance data-intensive workloads, providing the addition of Binary Large Object (Blob) storage for the efficient handling of unstructured, media-rich data, i.e., images, real-time videos, and rendered HTML.
With Blob storage, Harper version 4.5 builds on the company’s hallmark for speed—not only latency, but also data throughput—delivering better caching, faster load times, and uninterrupted content delivery even for media-heavy pages during peak traffic periods, the company said.
“Blob storage is more than a new feature in the Harper platform, it’s a core enrichment that opens up new use cases for our customers,” said Jaxon Repp, CTO of Harper. “Blob storage leverages Harper’s native streaming, sharding, and replication functionality to enable organizations to innovate without compromise, delivering unparalleled performance at any scale, for any type of data.”
The Harper platform has fused the traditional software stack—database, application, cache, and messaging functions—into a single process, on a single server. By keeping data at the edge, Harper lets applications avoid the transit time of contacting a centralized database.
Layers of resource-consuming logic, serialization, and network processes between each technology in the stack are removed, resulting in extremely low response times that translate into greater customer engagement, user satisfaction, and revenue growth.
Other features found in Harper version 4.5 include:
- Password hashing upgrade
- Expanded analytics
- Expanded sharding functionality
- Improved storage reclamation
- Certificate revocation
- HTTP/2 support
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