Today's episode is with Tyler Wells. Tyler is the CTO and co-founder at Propel. He was an early employee at Skype (and Microsoft after the acquisition) as well as Twilio. While at Twilio, Tyler helped build a data platform to power customer-facing analytics for a major Twilio feature. Propel is the productized version of that for other teams looking to build similar experiences.
In this episode, we see how this real-time, flexible analytics problem is tricky for a lot of teams, as well as how Propel is helping to solve the problem. We also cover some of Alex's favorite hobby horses for infrastructure developers -- what it's like building infrastructure services, how to think about billing, how S3 is becoming ubiquitous, and what to do about cross-AZ network costs.
Timestamps
02:29 Introduction
08:05 What is Propel?
22:28 ClickHouse
29:15 Target Customers
30:28 Billing Model
35:10 S3 becoming a key part?
36:47 Cross AZ Network Costs
41:56 Current Support
51:39 Access Policies
55:39 Rapid Fire
01:03:16 AI replacing Software Engineers?
Show Notes
Data Chaos Podcast
https://www.propeldata.com/
