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New Eng Blog / Using Data Analysis to Discover Top Stories
In addition to the regular Pulse Blog where we regularly share updates about our latest features and new content, Pulse now has an Engineering Blog! The goal is to share some of the exciting...
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Working Hard With No Regrets
Working for a startup usually means putting in more hours than others. Recently, I spent two days on less than 3 hours of sleep in order to push out our new Pulse.me release. This doesn’t seem strange...
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Pulse Wins Apple Design Award and Raises $9 Million Series A
I’m very excited to share that Pulse has announced it’s series A funding round! All of us are still fired up about last week’s Apple Design Award at WWDC and our recent 4 million user milestone, not...
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How To Use a Commuter Check Card to Purchase a Caltrain Monthly Pass
Warning Before I start, let me recommend that you don’t try this. The potential savings you gain from using pre-tax Commuter Check cards likely won’t be worth the pain of actually trying to buy...
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Livecount is an implementation of real-time counters that leverages the performance of memcache and task queues on Google AppEngine. Building a solid analytics platform is often a combination of...
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Scaling with the Kindle Fire
Earlier this week I wrote a guest post for the Google App Engine Blog on how Pulse has scaled-up our backend infrastructure to prepare for the recent Kindle Fire launch. The Kindle Fire includes Pulse...
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Scaling Pulse to 11M Users
As part of Pulse’s recent announcement of crossing the 11M user mark (up 10x since last year!), we’ve written a set of blog posts to share how we’ve scaled our backend infrastructure to keep up with...
View ArticleHow to Buy a Basic SSL Certificate
In order to support SSL for a simple Tornado server on EC2, a certificate is required. This process seems harder than it should be, so I thought I’d share the process that recently worked for me. There...
View ArticleApp Engine Wish List – Updates From Google IO 2012
We’ve been using Google App Engine at Pulse since 2010, back when we had only one backend engineer. In that time, App Engine has served us very well. There are many things Google App Engine does very...
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App Engine Datastore: How to Efficiently Export Your Data
While Google App Engine has many strengths, as with all platforms, there are some some challenges to be aware of. Over the last two years, one of our biggest challenges at Pulse has been how difficult...
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Updates from Google IO 2013
I’m happy to see that Google has been continuing to invest in App Engine and the broader Google Cloud platform. At this year’s Google IO there were many exciting new feature announcements from across...
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Learn iOS Faster
iOS is one of the most sought after skills in the software industry. More importantly, it’s a lot of fun to work on a major app with the potential to impact millions of users, and it can be even more...
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Lessons Learned in Engineering & Management
This post was originally published on Medium. In September 2010, I joined Pulse as the 2nd engineer with the goal of building a backend for what was a small but already very successful mobile app. As...
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How To Use a Commuter Check Card to Purchase a Caltrain Monthly Pass
Warning Before I start, let me recommend that you don’t try this. The potential savings you gain from using pre-tax Commuter Check cards likely won’t be worth the pain of actually trying to buy...
View ArticleLivecount
Livecount is an implementation of real-time counters that leverages the performance of memcache and task queues on Google AppEngine. Building a solid analytics platform is often a combination of...
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Scaling with the Kindle Fire
Earlier this week I wrote a guest post for the Google App Engine Blog on how Pulse has scaled-up our backend infrastructure to prepare for the recent Kindle Fire launch. The Kindle Fire includes Pulse...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scaling Pulse to 11M Users
As part of Pulse’s recent announcement of crossing the 11M user mark (up 10x since last year!), we’ve written a set of blog posts to share how we’ve scaled our backend infrastructure to keep up with...
View ArticleHow to Buy a Basic SSL Certificate
In order to support SSL for a simple Tornado server on EC2, a certificate is required. This process seems harder than it should be, so I thought I’d share the process that recently worked for me. There...
View ArticleApp Engine Wish List – Updates From Google IO 2012
We’ve been using Google App Engine at Pulse since 2010, back when we had only one backend engineer. In that time, App Engine has served us very well. There are many things Google App Engine does very...
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App Engine Datastore: How to Efficiently Export Your Data
While Google App Engine has many strengths, as with all platforms, there are some some challenges to be aware of. Over the last two years, one of our biggest challenges at Pulse has been how difficult...
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