What technologies does Harbour use?

Summary of our core tech stack

Harbour Tech stack (diagram)

Frontend

• • JavaScript/CSS/HTML (standard web technologies)
  • Vite (frontend tooling)
  • Vue (JavaScript framework for building interactive user interfaces)
  • Buefy UI (UX components library based on Vue and Bulma)
  • NaiveUI (UX component library based on Vue)
  • FontAwesome (UI icons)
  • Inter (modern, computer-screen-optimized variable font)

Server

• • Python 3 (programing language emphasizing code readability)
  • FastAPI (modern, high-performance async web framework)
  • Google App Engine (GCP/cloud-managed web infrastructure)

CI/CD & Testing

• • GitHub Actions (event-based automated workflows)
  • Cypress (automated testing)
  • Playwright (automated testing)
  • Testiny (test case management)
  • Vitest (frontend JavaScript testing)
  • pytest (backend Python testing)
  • BrowserStack (web and mobile cross-device-x-browser testing)

Data

• • Google Spanner (metadata/transactions storage and retrieval)
  • Cloud Storage (files/media content storage and retrieval)
  • Redis Enterprise Cloud (distributed data caching and retrieval)
  • Elastic Cloud (search engine data caching and retrieval)

Authentication

• • Google Cloud Identity/Firebase Authentication (SSO-based user authentication)

API

• • Documentation (JavaScript based framework Vuepress)
  • Server (Flask based Google Cloud Run)
  • Open API 3.0 (API specification)

Microservices and distributed tasks

• • Google Cloud Functions (Python) (serverless file processing)
  • Google Cloud Run (Python) (serverless file processing with custom containers/binaries)
  • Google PubSub (event-based messaging)
  • Google Cloud Scheduler (cloud-based cron jobs)
  • Google DataFlow (managed data pipelines)
  • Google Vertex AI (managed enterprise AI)
  • Google Vision AI (image/OCR intelligence)
  • Google Cloud Tasks (cloud-based task queuing and execution)

Monitoring and analytics

• • Google Analytics (web usage reporting)
  • Sentry.io (exception and performance reporting)
  • UpTimeRobot (uptime monitoring, alerts, and dashboard)
  • Google Cloud Logging (log reporting)
  • Mixpanel (web usage reporting and performance reporting
  • Pendo (user guides and user experience analytics)
  • RB2B (homepage user intent analytics)
  • 6sense (homepage user intent analytics)

Integrations/Third-Party Data Services

• • Zapier (one-to-many, managed integrations)

• • Paragon (self-service, no-code, managed integrations)
  • CK Editor (collaborative text editing)
  • UploadCare (document importing)

• • Google Maps (location info/autocompletion and thumbnails)

Domains

• • Squarespace Domains
  • GoDaddy Domains

Collaboration

• • Github Enterprise (private source code versioning and control)
  • Google Worksplace (user, email, and document management)
  • Linear (task/issue/project/roadmap tracker)
  • HubSpot (CRM platform, support pages)
  • Figma (collaborative visual mock-ups)
  • Excalidraw (collaborative technical whiteboarding and flow charts)
  • Pendo (user guides, release notes, support)

Communications, billing, and personalization

• • Twilio SendGrid (email sending, email templating, and analytics)
  • Stripe (payment processing and subscription management)
  • BrandFetch (recommended brand personalization content)
  • Loom  (visual recording, sharing, and comments/collaboration)

AI

• • Google Vertex AI with Gemini (LLM for text understanding and extractions)
  • OpenAI (LLM for text understanding and extractions)

Security and compliance FAQ

Keeping customer data safe and secure is our top priority -- check out this page for a full overview and details of our security and compliance.