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RAG vs. Fine-Tuning: What Dev Teams Need to Know
RAG vs. Fine-Tuning: Advantages and Disadvantages In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, the ability of...
Synthetic Data for AI: Purpose and Use Cases
What to Know About Synthetic Data for AI Programs For software developers, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can help...
How to Successfully Fork an Open-Source Project
Why is Heavybit writing a startup guide to forking open-source projects? Because while open source has been an incredible boon to...
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...
Best Practices for Developing Data Pipelines in Regulated Spaces
How to Think About Data Pipelines in Regulated Spaces Tech teams standing up new AI programs, or scaling existing programs, need...
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?...
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...
O11ycast Ep. #67, Managing Infrastructure Costs with Performance Engineering
In episode 67 of o11ycast, Martin, Jess, and Liz dive deep on performance engineering. Pulling heavily from Liz’s extensive...
Platform Builders Ep. #1, The Future of CRM is No CRM with Justin Belobaba
In this inaugural episode of Platform Builders, hosts Christine Spang and Isaac Nassimi of Nylas welcome Justin Belobaba, Founder...
Understanding Business Models & Defensibility in Open Source
First-Principles Business Models Matter for Open Source A key concern for open-source startup founders is defensibility–how to...
How to Launch a Dev-First Startup: Community & Leadership
Welcome to the second article in our definitive series on how to launch a developer-first startup, featuring advice from veteran...
How to Launch an AI Startup: Lessons from GitHub Copilot
Getting 1.2M Devs to Adopt Your AI Product GitHub Copilot is one of the most talked-about AI coding assistants on the market. As...