The Heavybit Library
The Heavybit Library is an extensive catalog of educational content featuring hundreds of hours of expert presentations, insightful podcasts, and articles focused on helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
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How to Properly Scope and Evolve Data Pipelines
For Data Pipelines, Planning Matters. So Does Evolution. A data pipeline is a set of processes that extracts, transforms, and...

AI’s Hidden Opportunities: Shawn "swyx" Wang on New Use Cases and Careers
This article covers thoughts from AI engineering expert Shawn "swyx" Wang on new opportunities in AI for use cases and engineers...

How to Generate Financial Reporting for Board Meetings
How to Get Financial KPIs Ready for the Board Meeting Your startup just closed its first major round after a long and arduous...
How to Build an Effective Pitch Deck
How to Build an Effective Fundraising Deck for Devtool Startups Technical founders often ask us what to include in their...
How to Start an Open-Source Project
How to Start an Open-Source Project Why is Heavybit posting a first-principles guide on how to create an open-source project?...
MLOps vs. Eng: Misaligned Incentives and Failure to Launch?
Failure to Launch: The Challenges of Getting ML Models into Prod Machine learning is a subset of AI–the practice of using...

Gridding: A Prioritizing and Planning Blueprint
In this special Speaker Series, product expert Craig Kerstiens explores startup communication, planning, & prioritization via...
Open Source vs. Proprietary: Development, Licensing, Business Models, and More
Open Source vs. Proprietary: Development, Licensing, Business Models, Security, and More Open-source software (OSS) is free to...

The Power User’s Guide to Open-Source Licenses
Licensing: A Key Trade-Off for Open Source Startups Why is Heavybit putting together this guide for open-source startup founders...
Technical & Cultural Learnings from 10 Years of Computing
What the Software Community Has Learned from 10 Years in Tech Amara’s Law states, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a...
Incident Response and DevOps in the Age of Generative AI
How Does Generative AI Work With Incident Response? Software continues to eat the world, as more dev teams depend on third-party...
How To Hire And Work With Lawyers At Your Startup: Advice For Early-Stage Founders From A General Counsel
How to Hire a Startup Lawyer Hiring an experienced startup lawyer is one of the first things a founder should do when thinking...