Articles by
Nico Acosta


Nico Acosta
June 1, 2023

Managing Timezone Settings in Snowflake
Understand timezone settings in Snowflake. How to check them, change them, and key best practices.

Nico Acosta
May 25, 2023

Introducing Usage Metering for ChatGPT-Powered LLM Apps
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 get to market faster.

Nico Acosta
May 17, 2023

How to reduce Snowflake costs: A five-point checklist
Check out our practitioner's five-point checklist to reduce Snowflake costs and optimize your data warehouse usage. Learn how to right-size your warehouses, adjust auto-suspend settings, and more.

Nico Acosta
May 16, 2023

How to subtract days from a date in Snowflake
Learn how to subtract days from a date in Snowflake using the powerful DATEADD function.

Nico Acosta
May 9, 2023

Analytics for LLM Apps: The Metrics Developers Need to Track with the ChatGPT API
Learn the key metrics LLM developers need to track for ChatGPT apps to optimize user experience, latency, and token costs. Discover how powerful analytics tools can help you make informed decisions.

Nico Acosta
May 3, 2023

April 2023 Product Updates 🌷
Welcome! This monthly newsletter includes product updates we’ve worked hard on and interesting reads about building with data.

Nico Acosta
May 2, 2023

How to concatenate strings in Snowflake
All you need to know to concatenate strings in Snowflake

Nico Acosta
April 25, 2023

Snowflake vs. BigQuery: Key Differences and Similarities
Unveiling the Nuances Between Two Cloud Data Warehouse Giants Snowflake and BigQuery

Nico Acosta
April 20, 2023

How to Convert a Timestamp to UTC in Snowflake: A Technical Reference Guide
Ensure accurate analysis by learning how to convert different Snowflake timestamp types, including epoch, TIMESTAMP_NTZ, TIMESTAMP_LTZ, and TIMESTAMP_TZ, to UTC with this advanced technical guide.

Nico Acosta
April 19, 2023


Nico Acosta
April 18, 2023

5-Minute demo: How to expose your Snowflake data via a blazing-fast GraphQL API
Check out this Propel and Snowflake demo where you will learn how to expose your Snowflake data via a low-latency GraphQL API to power internal and external applications.

Nico Acosta
April 11, 2023


Nico Acosta
April 5, 2023

February 2023 Product Updates
Welcome! This monthly newsletter includes product updates we’ve worked hard on and interesting reads about building with data.

Nico Acosta
March 7, 2023


Nico Acosta
February 3, 2023

How to build a Snowflake API
Create and query an API on top of your Snowflake data warehouse using Propel’s blazing-fast Serverless Analytics API Platform

Nico Acosta
January 11, 2023


Nico Acosta
December 21, 2022

Introducing the AWS S3 Data Source: Power customer-facing analytics from Parquet files in your S3 bucket
You can now power customer-facing analytics use cases such as insights dashboards, product usage reporting, or analytics APIs with Parquet f

Nico Acosta
December 14, 2022
Introducing Propellers: Easily select the optimal cost and query speed for each Customer-Facing Analytics use case
Propellers equip developers with an easy way to select the optimal cost and query speed for each customer-facing analytics use case.

Nico Acosta
November 29, 2022

What is the separation of storage and compute in data platforms and why does it matter?
As businesses strive to become data-driven, the separation of storage and compute has become a critical factor in data platforms.

Nico Acosta
November 14, 2022

Why do product and data teams struggle to work together?
Product and data teams struggle to work together because there's a tradeoff in data between flexibility, performance and cost-effectiveness.

Nico Acosta
August 23, 2022

How to build Snowflake data apps with GraphQL
Need to build a Snowflake data app? Here's how to create and query a Metric on top of Snowflake data warehouse using Propel’s GraphQL API.

Nico Acosta
July 26, 2022

How to build in-product analytics with Snowflake and GraphQL
Propel Data is excited to announce support for Snowflake. Developers are now able to build on top of GraphQL APIs powered by Snowflake data.

Nico Acosta
July 6, 2022

Why we built Propel Data
Today, we are thrilled to announce Propel Data – an API Platform for developers to easily build in-product analytics with large-scale data.

Nico Acosta
June 15, 2022