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...

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...
How LLM Guardrails Reduce AI Risk in Software Development
How LLM Guardrails Minimize the Risks of AI in Software Development Integrating Language Learning Models (LLMs) into software...

How to Use AI to Kickstart Sales at Early-Stage Startups
We’re at an interesting moment in tech, where AI has emerged as a powerful tool that will revolutionize business operations....
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...
Machine Learning Model Monitoring: What to Do In Production
Machine learning model monitoring is the process of continuously tracking and evaluating the performance of a machine learning...

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 Use AI to Kickstart Sales at Early-Stage Startups
We’re at an interesting moment in tech, where AI has emerged as a powerful tool that will revolutionize business operations....

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...

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...

2023: DevTool Industry Year in Review
Though it may be cliche to say, this year has been a rollercoaster for the devtools space and tech industry at large. The last 12...
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...