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At Propel, we believe that analytics should be a fundamental part of every product experience, especially when it comes to GPT-powered apps. LLMs consume expensive tokens, so tracking their usage is essential to the product experience. There is a tradeoff to consider between token usage, latency, and user experience. The best GPT-powered products will be the ones that master the track-tune-iterate cycle.
If you are building GPT-powered apps, we would love to chat and hear your feedback on what we’re working on to track usage and expose it through an API for LLM apps. Please reply to this email or book time with us!
What’s new?
We’ve been shipping and shipping! Here are some of the latest features.
📏 Usage Metering for ChatGPT-Powered LLM Apps: Now, you can easily add usage metering to your GPT-powered products with five lines of code. Quickly implement functionality to enforce limits, detect abuse, act on user feedback, visualize usage insights, and get to market faster. For more details, read the blog post.
🛡️ SOC 2 Type II: ✨✨ We are SOC-2 Type II compliant!!! HOO-YAH! 💪🏽💪🏽 Read the blog post.
Lastly, check out all the improvements and fixes in our changelog.
The latest posts and episodes
From Propel
The Metrics Developers Need to Track with the ChatGPT API
— Nico Acosta, CEO & Co-founder at Propel
Learn the key metrics LLM app developers need to track when building with the ChatGPT API to optimize the user experience, latency, and token cost tradeoff. Discover how powerful analytics tools can help you make informed decisions. Read the blog post.
How to reduce Snowflake costs: A five-point checklist
— Nico Acosta, CEO & Co-founder at Propel
Some customers have reduced their Snowflake bill by over 50% with this checklist. Read the blog post.
ChatGPT Powered Apps Need to Track Usage
— Dave Ganly, Head of Product at Propel, and Tyler Wells, Co-founder at Propel
In this episode, Tyler and Dave talk about the explosion of Generative AI apps and some interesting trends emerging, as apps now need to track usage and build it as part of their product experience. Dave has been spending a lot of time with the developers at the forefront of building on top of the new APIs: ChatGPT, Bard, Anthropic, and others.
Check it out, give it a listen, and let us know what you think! Subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Deployment Notes: How we document changes to production
— Mark Roberts, Co-founder at Propel
Check out how we use deployment notes to communicate changes internally, improve customer communication, and aid in incident response. Read the blog post.
Who is responsible for data quality?
— Nico Acosta, CEO & Co-founder at Propel
Frictionless giving and the creation of Overflow.co with Kyle Woumn
— Tyler Wells, CTO & Co-founder at Propel
From the community
- How Scale Kills Data Teams - A Classic. It outlines a lot of problems data teams face — a must-read.
- GraphQL over SSE (Server-Sent Events) - SSE is turning out to be a key piece of infrastructure for building ChatGPT-like text streaming UIs.
- A Zero ETL Future - Maybe, maybe not.
- Improving adoption with the product usage report email - Really neat examples of product usage emails and how they improve adoption. These are notoriously hard to execute on (until Propel 😜).
- Building dbt CI/CD at scale - How Checkout.com runs dbt at scale.
- Keep parts of your GraphQL Introspection Query hidden - Good tricks to enable introspection without exposing APIs that you don’t want to.
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