Author name: Carla Locke

An Entrepreneur’s Tale by Geetha Vallabhaneni

As we celebrate the 10th year of Luminix, a few people have asked me to share my story and how I managed to build and grow a stable and sustainable company without any outside help or capital. It strikes me as odd that I never sat down to put words to my story. For someone who believes in the need for stories and myths, it is kind of odd to leave their own story unspoken. I think I know why now.

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We benchmarked Pulsar sync times. Verdict? The algorithm scales and performs beautifully!

One of the critical concerns for anyone dealing with Offline Synchronization is scaling. How much data can you download and how fast? The scope and complexity of the problem quickly escalates if you are dealing with mobile devices as the offline store. It is very typical for our enterprise customers to have large amounts of data and they expect the users to have access to this without interruption no matter whether they are online or offline. Our internal tests proved that the algorithm scales really well but we also had a chance to measure real sync times from some of our customers with real world scenarios (people with spotty 3G connection to robust WiFi times). We decided to publish some of those numbers since they are very very impressive!

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Hunting for native stack traces in an app written in C# but uses C++ libs

Forgive us for being a little too geeky with this post but this has been a sticky issue that caused a lot of heartburn with our engineering team lately, so we have decided to share what we found. And to reinforce that old notion, there is light at the end of that coding tunnel after all! First, a refresher. Our Pulsar for Salesforce mobile offline app has been available on Android and Windows app stores for a few months now. We used Xamarin platform to develop the app, so that it would run natively on both platforms. The language of choice for this environment is C# but we were able to reuse the core pieces of our dev work on the iOS app in the form of C++ dynamic libraries.

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Branding Pulsar Home Page

Pulsar provides an easy way to control the home page look and feel, so it conforms to your company’s branding standards. You can upload a background image with your company logo and also change the Tool and Navigation Bar colors to your company’s choice colors.

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