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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Data Council 2025: The Foundation Models Track with Dr. Bryan Bischof and Tom Drummond
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...
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...
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...

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...
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...
The Future of Coding in the Age of GenAI
What AI Assistants Mean for the Future of Coding If you only read the headlines, AI has already amplified software engineers...
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 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...

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...