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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The Data Pipeline is the New Secret Sauce
Why Data Pipelines and Inference Are AI Infrastructure’s Biggest Challenges While there’s still great excitement around AI and...
Getting There Ep. #7, The March 2023 Datadog Outage with Laura de Vesine
In episode 7 of Getting There, Nora and Niall speak with Laura de Vesine of Datadog. Laura shares a unique perspective on the...
Getting There Ep. #4, The April 2022 Atlassian Outage
In episode 4 of Getting There, Nora Jones and Niall Murphy discuss the Atlassian outage of April 2022. This talk explores...
Getting There Ep. #1, The October 4th ‘21 Facebook Outage
In this inaugural episode of Getting There, co-hosts Nora Jones and Niall Murphy unpack the October 4th ‘21 Facebook Outage and...

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...
2022: DevTool Industry Year in Review
Happy New Year and welcome back! Before we forge ahead with 2023 programming and content, we want to take some time to reflect on...
Getting There Ep. #3, The October 2021 Roblox Outage
In episode 3 of Getting There, Nora Jones and Niall Murphy unpack the Roblox outage of October 2021. Together they review the...
When Will I Start to See Traffic? A Field Guide for Managing Expectations in Content Marketing
Erik Dietrich is a longtime software engineer and software blogger, who eventually combined those pursuits to start a business....
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...
Three Key Best Practices for Modern Incident Response
Incident management refers to the process that a company takes to detect, act upon, and resolve issues with their software...

Getting There Ep. #2, The December 2021 AWS Outages
In episode 2 of Getting There, Nora and Niall discuss the socio-technical aspects of the AWS outages that occurred in December...
O11ycast Ep. #21, Learning Systems with Jessica Kerr
In episode 21 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jessica Kerr. Together they explore complex learning systems, how to view...