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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LLM Fine-Tuning: A Guide for Engineering Teams in 2025
General-purpose large language models (LLMs) are built for broad artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The most popular...
How Local-First Development Is Changing How We Make Software
What Local First Is, and Why It Matters Local-first development is a development ethos that keeps data and code on your device...
The Future of Coding in the Age of GenAI
What AI Assistants Mean for the Future of Coding If you only read the headlines, AI has already amplified software engineers...
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...
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...
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...
AI Inference: A Guide for Founders and Developers
What Is AI Inference (And Why Should Devs Care?) AI inference is the process of machine learning models processing previously...
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...
How to Create Data Pipelines
How to Create Data Pipelines Introduction to Data Pipelines In today’s data-driven world developers and product managers rely...
Machine Learning Lifecycle: Take Projects from Idea to Launch
Machine learning is the process of teaching deep learning algorithms to make predictions based on a specific dataset. ML...
The Data Pipeline is the New Secret Sauce
Why Data Pipelines and Inference Are AI Infrastructure’s Biggest Challenges While there’s still great excitement around AI and...
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...