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 = Introducing Pulse =
-https://pulse.mozilla.org/
+Pulse is a managed RabbitMQ cluster designed to provide loose coupling between automation and infrastructure tools.  The goal of Pulse is to add visibility to Mozilla's tools and systems and to eliminate polling and other brittle methods of scraping data. This allows more robust, dynamic, and informative tools.
-Mozilla currently has a ton of different systems that are inter-connected via polling, screen scraping, email, and other brittle methods. To make their lives easier community members often build tools on top of this house of cards, adding yet another level of scraping and polling. Many systems don't even export important data for others to scrape and use, preventing better tools from being written.
+[[Auto-tools/Projects/Pulse/PulseGuardian|PulseGuardian]] is a tool that manages Pulse's users and queues (and eventually exchanges).  It is available at https://pulseguardian.mozilla.org.
-The goal of Pulse is to eliminate polling and add visibility into all aspects of Mozilla and its systems. This allows more robust, dynamic, and informative tools.
 We have a discussion forum available via the standard trio of [news:mozilla.tools.pulse USENET newsgroup], [https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/tools-pulse mailing list], and [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.tools.pulse Google Group].