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 to Create Data Pipelines
How to Create Data Pipelines Introduction to Data Pipelines In today’s data-driven world developers and product managers rely...
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...
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...
Open Source Ready Ep. #14, The Workbrew Story with Mike McQuaid and John Britton
In episode 14 of Open Source Ready, special guests Mike McQuaid and John Britton join Brian and John to share the story of...
Data Council 2025: The Databases Track with Sai Krishna Srirampur and Craig Kerstiens
Heavybit is thrilled to be sponsoring Data Council 2025, and we invite you to join us in Oakland from Apr 22-24 to experience 3...
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?...
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...
The Role of Synthetic Data in AI/ML Programs in Software
Why Synthetic Data Matters for Software Running AI in production requires a great deal of data to feed to models. Reddit is now...
How Startup Founders Should Think About Local-First Dev
What Local-First Dev Means for Startup Founders If you’re a startup founder, you’re always looking for some kind of edge–a way...
How to Think About Positioning for Open Source
Positioning Open Source for Your Community (and Yourself) Why is Heavybit posting this extensive interview on thinking through...
Enterprise AI Infrastructure: Compliance, Risks, Adoption
How Enterprise AI Infrastructure Must Balance Change Management vs. Risk Aversion 50%-60% of enterprises reportedly “use” AI,...