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...
Data Council 2025: The Data Science & Algorithms Track with Sean Taylor and Jesse Robbins
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 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...
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...
Regulation & Copyrights: Do They Work for AI & Open Source?
Emerging Questions in Global Regulation for AI and Open Source The 46th President of the United States issued an executive order...
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 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...
Personal Branding for Founders
Why Personal Branding? A lot of founders I’ve spoken to, especially those of us who are technical, bristle at the idea of...
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...
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...
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...