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Co-founder & CEO at @PropelDataCloud . Ex-product lead @ Twilio

San Francisco

https://t.co/S5KyyTsUWY

Joined May 2009

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6 months

After 2 years, 10 early design partners, over 200 developers on the platform, 4,858 code commits from the team, and over 10 million customer queries... 🚀 Happy to share that @PropelDataCloud is now Generally Available! (and self-service w/ generous free tier) Powering

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@acossta

Nico Acosta

2 years

My first job at @twilio was as the Product Manager for the console Developer Experience. Back then (over 9 years ago), the Twilio console did not provide any insight into the usage, spend, or errors. Developers were flying blind. 1/25

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4 years

1/2 I'm thrilled to be working with my co-founder @tylerwells to empower developers to build data products faster. Stay tuned for more updates...

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2 years

It's incredible how crazy good some of the original @twilio values were. Wear the customers' shoes, progress over perfection, no shenanigans, and draw the owl. When building @PropelDataCloud we keep coming back to them consciously and unconsciously.

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8 months

Epic @twilio reunion last night

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1 year

Different favicons let developers easily distinguish between the Propel website, the docs, and the console

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3 years

The band back together. Grateful to be building @PropelDataCloud with my co-founders @tylerwells and @andrus

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1 year

We are launching on Product Hunt today 🔥🔥🔥 We could use your help. If you have a second - check out the post below, and leave an 👉🏻 upvote or comment, letting us know what you think! ✨ Introducing Usage Metering for ChatGPT-Powered LLM Apps ✨

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Propel for LLM Apps - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Add usage metering to your ChatGPT-powered products with five lines of code. Quickly implement functionality to enforce limits, detect abuse, act on user feedback, and visualize usage insights and...

www.producthunt.com

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9 years

It turns out the future was not flying cars but sharing cars

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10 months

What went down at OpenAI seems like the nuclear version of the classic Product Management <> Engineering tension (which is healthy and by design).

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11 months

I’m going to tell my kids that when they were young we used to have to prompt/beg the LLMs to return well formed JSON. Happy that’s over.

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9 years

My slides from my #SignalConf talk on WebRTC on the Server Side. http://t.co/3XzRHWzkvm #webrtc

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9 years

http://t.co/W1vRS3Ib9S

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8 months

So much effort goes into launching a new website. Sharpening the positioning, the value prop, the copy, and of course the design and buildout. Check it out!

@PropelDataCloud

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✨ Shiny new website! ✨ Let us know what you think!

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9 years

"A Teenager’s View on Social Media" I had this post on my reading list for a while. It's worth the read http://t.co/NkhyjgwKs1 #social

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1 year

A bunch of good tricks to reduce your #Snowflake costs 👇🏼

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1 year

Facing high #Snowflake costs? 😳 💸 Check out our practitioner's 5-point checklist to reduce #Snowflake costs and optimize your data warehouse usage. 🧵👇 1 of 4

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4 years

2/2 In the meantime, we are hiring golang full-stack developers! feel free to reach out to careers at

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9 years

Good, simple summary of what is going on with bitcoin and the block size war http://t.co/xfxzdmoOte #bitcon #blockchain

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9 years

http://t.co/Yy17IGy9e7

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1 year

Here are the tricks we used to optimize our dbt incremental models to reduce our Snowflake spend by 20x while improving data quality and freshness.

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How we reduced our Snowflake spend by 20x

Here are the tricks we used to optimize our dbt incremental models to reduce our Snowflake spend by 20x while improving data quality and freshness.

www.propeldata.com

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6 years

We’re inviting some developers to hack on a secret new Twilio product in London on Friday. Wanna join us? Drop me a note nico at twilio dot com

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9 years

Great to visit the @twilio Estonia office. http://t.co/rfgU8748dU

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10 months

Everyone thinks building customer-facing analytics is easy... until they start building it. Come find out why on December 7 at @acossta 's @AirbyteHQ conference talk:

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1 year

What a fun morning recording @PropelDataCloud ’s #PoweredBySnowflake video with @jdanielmyers at @SnowflakeDB Data, APIs, Snowpark Conatiners and,of course, a live demo!

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1 year

Embedded dashboards via iframes are high-interest technical debt.

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1 year

A couple of things from Chad Sanderson's "How Scale Kills Data Teams" really resonated. 🧵🪡

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6 months

Today I lost my hotel keycard. I walked up to the front desk, gave them my room number and they just gave me a new one. Did not even ask my name, much less check ID. 🤔

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2 years

I'm convinced that AirPods were meticulously designed to maximize the distance traveled upon free fall contact with the ground.

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1 year

My favorite 3 podcasts these days: 1) 20VC - hosted by @HarryStebbings . Love the interviewing style and great guests. 2) Data Chaos - hosted by @tylerwells . Good, insightful conversations on data and startups. 3) Planet Money - @planetmoney always good non-obvious deep dives.

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1 year

At @PropelDataCloud , we put a lot of effort into automation. But in very select places, we intentionally insert a manual step. Deployments are one of them.

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9 years

Today two years ago was the @twilio move http://t.co/LPkAKKwHaa

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9 years

Twilio IP Messaging: beautiful APIs, cross platform SDKs, rock solid high availability and scalable backend! @twilio

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9 years

Energy has gone from generators (on-prem) to the grid (cloud) to solar+batteries (decentralized). I wonder if computing will follow.

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1 year

The effort required to build customer-facing analytics is almost always underestimated.

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8 years

Proud of the team & exited about Twilio's dual-channel recording to extract analytics frm individual callers @twilio

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9 years

The video of my #SignalConf talk on WebRTC on the Server Side is up! http://t.co/KeAxk3iPY6 #webrtc @twilio

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2 years

As @SethCarney from @trycourier put it: "With Propel we were able to ship the analytics we always wanted!" 25/25 fin

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1 year

love this quote from Joe Coulombe, the founder of Trader Joe's: "Travel is, after all, a form of education." He built his business on the insight that as travel became more affordable, there would be an increased demand for non-mainstream products like wines, cheeses, and more.

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1 month

One of the things I always admired about Twilio and AWS when I worked there was that as they scaled, they would pass those savings to customers. At Propel, we are doing the same. Our fastest query tiers are up to 47% cheaper.

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9 months

I've never been a fan of publicly committing the roadmap to customers. Even less of a fan of communicating target dates.

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7 years

The video of my #SignalLondon talk on Building a Voice Business is up! Check it out! @twilio @webrtc

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[SIGNAL London] Building a Voice Product for Fun and Profit, From...

Voice is the most natural way we communicate and it represents a great business opportunity for companies and products seeking to expand their revenue stream...

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9 years

Great to see free HTTPS certs for all. Nice job! @letsencrypt #ssl #https

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Let's Encrypt enters public beta: free HTTPS certificates for everyone!

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9 years

MakeItReal is on the right track with dev training programs, good to see built in Colombia #builtincolombia

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8 years

AWS is the only company I know that hasn't migrated to the cloud. They still rack hardware, wire up routers and even build data centers

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2 years

Our relational DBs were not well suited for analytical workloads. We needed a new approach. It was when @tylerwells and @andrus (my co-founders) built Twilio Voice Insights for WebRTC. A call analytics product that gives customers a complete picture of call performance. 8/25

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9 years

Map of Westeros Google Maps style #gameofthrones http://t.co/TbrawXkaaY http://t.co/mbJgAdloTK

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Wow. 8 years ago today.

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9 years

Five minutes to launch @jeffiel live coding video with conversations API on stage #signalconf #live #webrtc @twilio http://t.co/CwlRCYWU5q

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5 years

Rule of thumb when grocery shopping: anything that says ‘triple cream’ is good

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5 months

@levelsio Crazy to me how shitty the AdWords interface is given that is one, if not, the most profitable product in the history of the internet.

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1 year

At the end of every month, I get nervous that we won't have enough to include in our changelog. Every month, I'm wrong. It's incredible how much a small, talented, and focused team can deliver for customers!

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I was told my talk had the first ever live coding demo in the history of Data Council I built what took us years at Twilio in under 5 minutes with Propel Check it out → The behind the scenes story is fun one 👇🏻

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From Twilio to Propel: Building Real-Time Customer-Facing Analytics...

Join us for a deep dive into the world of real-time customer analytics at Twilio. In this video, learn about the specific architecture they implemented, its ...

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3 months

Hello cefalu! Finally made it.

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4 years

I am increasingly proud of my decision Tuesday night to go to sleep at midnight.

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1 year

A shiny new Snowflake landing page Power your customer-facing data apps with a blazing-fast API on top of Snowflake.

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1 year

One of my favorite recent customer testimonials: "If you're looking to build user-friendly analytics, Propel is the way to go. It allowed us to create powerful analytics quickly and efficiently, even at a large scale.

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9 years

Mobile Video was hard until today. Simple, yet powerful: Programmable Video @twilio #webrtc

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10 years

With a lot of hard work from the team, built for scale and performance, Twilio's Elastic SIP Trunking now available

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2 years

We are onboarding customers as fast as we can. We are starting with Snowflake customers and will be adding support for AWS Redshift, GPC BigQuery, and Databricks in the coming quarters. Join our waitlist! 24/24

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1 year

software = concrete data = water

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1 year

These tricks can save you a lot of unnecessary complexity in your data stack.

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How to denormalize your data with Snowflake's dynamic tables to power a dashboard with Propel

www.propeldata.com

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9 years

Huge! Twilio Video! Incredibly proud of the team!! http://t.co/7HuoQX07np #webrtc @twilio

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1 year

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1 year

Why are GraphQL users so productive? Because they’ve had enough REST.

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"Decompose a large problem into smaller problems. Importantly, each small problem must have some clear way you can see the results of your work." @mitchellh - My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects

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Nico Acosta

9 years

Great to see an AWS Summit in Bogota! @awscloud @AWSstartups

@awscloud

Amazon Web Services

9 years

The #AWSSummit Bogotá is close! Come & know how you can start using the AWS Cloud: http://t.co/chmSyGO93p http://t.co/AvvW7alPwy

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9 years

Twilio 7th bday!

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1 year

"Tools like Fivetran allowed data engineers to connect to any source system and move data in minutes (“load first, ask questions later)" Powerful tools can hurt if not used correctly. Pulling data from under a team w/o a contract/API is a way to move fast & break things for sure

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9 months

The options we are considering: 1. Build our own 2. @radix_ui 3. React-select by @JedWatson 4. Base-ui by @MaterialUI

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2 years

Building data products should be fast and easy for developers and that’s why we built Propel Data. 22/25

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2 years

Need to ship analytics for your product? Have your data in Snowflake? Ship in-product analytics in minutes, not months. We are thrilled to announce Propel's support for @SnowflakeDB @SnowflakeEng . #Snowflake #Moderndatastack #Graphql #Analytics

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It's always been tricky to set up data #warehouses such as #Snowflake to integrate with other apps. We're trying to change that by providing easy-to-use #GraphQL #APIs for #data #analytics apps. #dataapps #dbt #dataengineering #moderndatastack #programming

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1 year

One of my favorite values we have at @PropelDataCloud is “Propel is customer-zero.”

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1 year

Naming is hard. It's even harder when building API products as you can't easily change the names. Today I thought I'd share our API design principle #4 : Specific over general names

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Nico Acosta

2 years

Insights was the little-known secret sauce that unlocked Twilio's growth. It gave customers the confidence to scale up their usage. It's not only a self-service data product but also a paid product with a fast-growing revenue stream. 10/25

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1 year

Meet us at @SnowflakeDB Summit! Book a meeting here: Feel free to DM me as well.

Power your customer-facing data apps with Snowflake | Snowflake API | Snowflake GraphQL | Propel

Power your customer-facing data apps with a blazing-fast GraphQL API on top of Snowflake without writing a single line of code.

www.propeldata.com

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Propel

@PropelDataCloud

1 year

Heading to the #SnowflakeSumit next week? Book a demo to see Propel in action and discover how you can deploy a blazing-fast GraphQL API on top of Snowflake without writing a single line of code. 👉🏻 Visit

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1 year

The @Uber scheduling feature is the sh…t. Landed 20 mins early, it automatically adjusted, and had a driver waiting for me when I landed.

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5 months

Here we go!

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1 year

We had a blast at Snowflake Summit last month. Here are my most important takeaways:

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2 months

A byproduct of watching the Olympics is watching TV with ads again. I'm surprised to see a lot of ads for Microsoft Copilot and Google gemini. Are they not seeing the organic adoption pick up and need to drive demand with ads? 🤔

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1 year

This requires a new type of platform that empowers product development teams to truly build with data and make the tradeoff (and iterate on it) that is best for their customers.

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9 months

Frontend folks 👉🏻 feedback request. What underlying dropdown component should we use as a base for Propel's UI Kit library? Use an existing one? Build our own? Some context 👇🏼

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9 years

Awesome mobile & web @Zendesk video demo at #signalconf #webrtc http://t.co/IhFrp5tpfD #live @twilio http://t.co/u2rafTJETL

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your unit tests still pass when your data is wrong

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1 year

And guess what – many of those improbable ideas do work, and society is the beneficiary of that diversity." - Jeff Bezos, 2011 Shareholder letter

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1 year

Why do platforms need to be self-service? 🤔 I think a lot about this in the context of Data Platforms. Jeff Bezos has my favorite explanation:

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2 years

By this time of the year, the yearly plans that everyone worked so hard on from October to December are, best case, getting revised, and worse case, already out the window 🫢.

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11 months

At Propel, we're hosting a meetup & happy hour for developers and engineering leaders working on AI tomorrow at 6:00 PM downtown SF. Want to come? I'd love to see you in person!

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Developers x AI · Luma

The introduction of AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT has fundamentally changed the nature of coding, as well as how we interact with software…

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1 year

One of the features I love most about @PropelDataCloud is its ability to migrate Metrics from one Data Pool to another, all without needing to write any code. This allows you to seamlessly evolve your data stack without having to make any code updates in your applications.

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2 years

During my time at @twilio , and still today, #REST APIs were the norm. We debated the RESTFullness of things, and it had an almost religious feeling to it. Today @PropelDataCloud ’s API is entirely #GraphQL → Here’s how we got here 🧵🪡 1 of 7

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2 years

It collected metrics from WebRTC endpoints, processed them in real-time, and gave customers dashboards to understand what networks or individual agents had connectivity issues. But most importantly, it turned customer frustration into customer empowerment. 9/25

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1 year

If your're building #GPT -powered products, you should check this out 👇

@PropelDataCloud

Propel

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1 year

If you're building #ChatGPT -powered #LLM apps, we've got something for you You can now add usage tracking (to keep track of token usage) to your #LLM app with 5 lines of code. Read on to join our first-come, first-serve waitlist 🧵🪡👇 1 of 10

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The day that AWS Lambdas launched, @rickyrobinett was doing live demo (at the launch event in NY) of a Twilio app with Lambdas at 12:00pm but it was only until 11:58am that the AWS team deployed the first version that actually worked. A master of live demos.

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9 years

Probably the future of messaging -> the command line interface for everything

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1 year

The solution is for product teams, who are closer to the customer, to be empowered to make the tradeoff in a self-service way.

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9 years

Ever wondered how to get real time events for your @twilio Calls? Check out Call Progress Events http://t.co/7k3zgxBJ0w #webhooks #api

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1 year

What's next? We're building the Data Grid API into our Data Pool page so you can easily preview your data. Guess what. We've built it into our product first.

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1 month

I'm always pleasantly surprised by how much the @PropelDataCloud Terraform provider is used. → 123 downloads this week alone!

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Nico Acosta

2 years

✨I’m thrilled to partner with @daveganly to empower teams to build the analytics they’ve always wanted @PropelDataCloud

@daveganly

Dave Ganly

2 years

Delighted to join the fantastic team at as head of product today. Please do get in touch if you want to chat about it. 🚀

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Sunday afternoon walk.

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