Martin Heller
Contributing Editor
Martin Heller is a contributing editor and reviewer for InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. More recently, he has served as VP of technology and education at Alpha Software and chairman and CEO at Tubifi. Disclosure: He also writes for Hewlett-Packard's TechBeacon marketing website.
InfoWorld’s 2019 Technology of the Year Award winners
InfoWorld editors and reviewers recognize the year’s best software development, cloud computing, big data analytics, and machine learning tools
What is Keras? The deep neural network API explained
Easy to use and widely supported, Keras makes deep learning about as simple as deep learning can be
Review: The 6 best JavaScript IDEs
WebStorm, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio Code, NetBeans, Komodo, and Eclipse pull out the stops for JavaScript, Node.js, and friends
Review: The 10 best JavaScript editors
Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, Brackets, and Atom rise to the top, but several others are also worth considering
Homebrew tutorial: How to use Homebrew for MacOS
The open source Homebrew package manager gives Mac users access to Unix command-line utilities that Apple left out — and a lot more
TigerGraph review: A graph database designed for deep analytics
Highly parallelized and horizontally scalable, TigerGraph shines for use cases that require multi-hop analytic queries
SQL tutorial: Learn SQL on MariaDB
Follow this step-by-step guide to install MariaDB, load data, connect to a database, and execute SQL queries including table joins
Review: MXNet deep learning shines with Gluon
With the addition of the high-level Gluon API, Apache MXNet rivals TensorFlow and PyTorch for developing deep learning models
How to use Knime for data science
Free, open-source Knime allows you to visually assemble data processing “nodes” into machine learning, deep learning, and other analytics workflows
SQL tutorial: Learn SQL on PostgreSQL
Follow this step-by-step guide to install PostgreSQL, load data, connect to a database, and execute SQL queries including table joins
The best open source software for software development
InfoWorld’s 2018 Best of Open Source Software Award winners in software development
The best open source software for machine learning
InfoWorld’s 2018 Best of Open Source Software Award winners in machine learning and deep learning
The best open source software for data storage and analytics
InfoWorld’s 2018 Best of Open Source Software Award winners in databases and data analytics
Review: Keras sails through deep learning
Keras sequential models make deep neural network modeling about as simple as it can be
Review: MongoDB takes on the world
MongoDB 4.0 beefs up with global cloud clusters, multi-document ACID transactions, and HIPAA compliance
What is CUDA? Parallel programming for GPUs
You can accelerate deep learning and other compute-intensive apps by taking advantage of CUDA and the parallel processing power of GPUs
Go tutorial: Get started with Google Go
Go is a concise, simple, safe, and fast compiled language that trades features for speed. Isn’t it time you gave it a try?
DataStax review: Cassandra made faster and easier
DataStax Enterprise 6 offers greater throughput than Cassandra, lower latency, and useful extras that make it easier to run
