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		<title>Scaling with the Kindle Fire</title>
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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 as one of the only preloaded apps and is projected to sell over five million units this quarter alone. This meant we had to prepare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gbayer.com/pulse/scaling-with-the-kindle-fire/</link>
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		<title>Livecount</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 real-time and batch processing. Batch processing, with a tool like Hadoop, is great for digging into large amounts of past data and asking questions that cannot be anticipated.  In contrast, when it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gbayer.com/projects/livecount/</link>
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		<title>How To Use a Commuter Check Card to Purchase a Caltrain Monthly Pass</title>
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Warning
Before I start, let me recommend that you don&#8217;t try this.  The potential savings you gain from using pre-tax Commuter Check cards likely won&#8217;t be worth the pain of actually trying to buy something with them.  Return the cards to your employer and ask them to enroll in another option for funding your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gbayer.com/observations/how-to-use-a-commuter-check-card-to-purchase-a-caltrain-monthly-pass/</link>
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		<title>Pulse Wins Apple Design Award and Raises $9 Million Series A</title>
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I&#8217;m very excited to share that Pulse has announced it&#8217;s series A funding round! All of us are still fired up about last week&#8217;s Apple Design Award at WWDC and our recent 4 million user milestone, not to mention that today is our co-founder Ankit&#8217;s birthday. Thanks to the team for their tireless work and to everyone who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gbayer.com/pulse/pulse-wins-apple-design-award-and-raises-9-million-series-a/</link>
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		<title>Working Hard With No Regrets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t seem strange to me and didn&#8217;t make me unhappy. In fact, it was one of the most exciting and fun things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gbayer.com/observations/working-hard-with-no-regrets/</link>
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		<title>New Eng Blog / Using Data Analysis to Discover Top Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 engineering work that goes into bringing users the Pulse experience they&#8217;ve come to expect. To kick things off I added a post about Using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gbayer.com/big-data/new-eng-blog-using-data-analysis-to-discover-top-stories/</link>
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		<title>Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you use multiple git repositories, it&#8217;s only a matter of time until you&#8217;ll want to refactor some files from one project to another.  Today at Pulse we reached the point where it was time to split up a very large repository that was starting to be used for too many different sub-projects.
After reading some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gbayer.com/development/moving-files-from-one-git-repository-to-another-preserving-history/</link>
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		<title>Pulse News is Hiring!</title>
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A few months ago I mentioned that I left the government/research world (Sandia Labs) and joined an exciting new startup.   I&#8217;d like to share a bit more about my experience so far and announce that we are hiring!
Those who have worked at a large company and then moved to startup can probably relate to my experience. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gbayer.com/pulse/pulse-news-is-hiring/</link>
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		<title>Map(Reduce) Analytics on Google AppEngine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google AppEngine is a great tool for building simple web applications which are automatically scalable. All of the basic building blocks are readily available and accessible from both python and java.  This includes a database, a caching layer, and support for background tasks.
What about the big data analytics and informatics that made Google famous? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gbayer.com/big-data/mapreduce-analytics-on-google-appengine/</link>
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		<title>Recently Joined Pulse!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a year and half of big data research for the government and quite a bit of fun with Hadoop, I&#8217;ve decided to join some good friends at an early-stage startup called Alphonso Labs.
Pulse is currently the #1 news reader on the iPad, iPhone, Andriod app stores.  I&#8217;ll be leading the development of our backend data [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gbayer.com/pulse/recently-joined-pulse/</link>
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