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 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...
Why We’re Talking Code Generation at DevGuild AI Summit III
How It’s Going At this time last year, AI gave rise to lofty promises to the developer community. You–the community–told us you...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...