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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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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Generationship Ep. #25, Replacing Yourself featuring Melinda Byerley
In episode 25 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Melinda Byerley, founder and CEO of Fiddlehead, about the...
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 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?...
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...