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.
What is Flutter? Mobile app development for Android, iOS, and more
Flutter lets you build compiled, cross-platform mobile, desktop, and web applications from a single codebase. Get started with Flutter and its easy-to-use programming language, Dart.
Choosing your Java IDE
Which Java IDE is best? Compare IntelliJ IDEA , Eclipse, and NetBeans for features, usability, and compatibility with your favorite tools and frameworks.
JetBrains Fleet: The future of IDEs?
With distributed and remote options and advanced collaboration capabilities, JetBrains Fleet could be the best thing for software developers since Visual Studio Code. But it’s still in the works.
Review: Visual Studio Code shines for Java
With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA.
Review: Redpanda gives Kafka a run for its money
The Kafka-compatible distributed event streaming platform excels in latency and performance and offers a glimpse into the future of streaming with inline WebAssembly transforms and more.
Review: YugabyteDB does PostgreSQL proud
YugabyteDB 2.13 is a highly scalable, distributed version of PostgreSQL that combines compelling ideas from Google Cloud Spanner and Amazon Aurora—and serves as a Cassandra-compatible database too.
What is PyTorch? Python machine learning on GPUs
PyTorch 1.10 is production ready, with a rich ecosystem of tools and libraries for deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and more. Here's how to get started with PyTorch.
What is a data lake? Massively scalable storage for big data analytics
Dive into data lakes—what they are, how they're used, and how data lakes are both different and complementary to data warehouses.
Review: Databricks Lakehouse Platform
Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines cost-effective data storage with machine learning and data analytics, and it's available on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Could it be an affordable alternative for your data warehouse needs?
InfoWorld’s 2022 Technology of the Year Award winners
InfoWorld celebrates the year’s best products in software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and machine learning.
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.