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 Create Data Pipelines
How to Create Data Pipelines Introduction to Data Pipelines In today’s data-driven world developers and product managers rely...
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...
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...
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?...
The Kubelist Podcast Ep. #44, Service Mesh Evolution with Idit Levine of Solo
In episode 44 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Idit Levine, Founder and CEO of Solo.io,...
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 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...
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...