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Volume 22, Issue 1 (January/February 2024) Table of Contents

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January/February 2024 acmqueue


Features


A "Perspectival" Mirror of the Elephant
Language bias is real on Google, ChatGPT, YouTube, and Wikipedia platforms. As in the fable of the blind men and the elephant, such bias leads to an incomplete understanding of information across societal divides.
- Queenie Luo, Michael J. Puett, and Michael D. Smith

Challenges in Adopting and Sustaining Microservice-based Software Development
A microservice-based approach to software development offers real advantages over the traditional monolithic style, but there are organizational challenges—even more than technical difficulties—in adopting this new approach.
- Padmal Vitharana and Shahir A. Daya

Developer Ecosystems for Software Safety
Common software defects persist despite efforts to follow safe and secure design principles. Google's theory is that software safety and security must be incorporated within the design of the developer ecosystem.
- Christopher Kern

From Open Access to Guarded Trust
Gone are the days when companies had free access to the data they collected from their customers. Today the fervor to innovate must be carefully weighed against cultivating the trust of users.
- Yifei Wang


Columns


THE BIKESHED
Free and Open Source Software—and Other Market Failures

The FOSS movement never quite worked out. But it did gain something: freedom from those who held tightly to source code. Today people have realized that source code is more of a liability than an asset.
- Poul-Henning Kamp

KODE VICIOUS
Software Drift

A software fork is like a divorce. Whether messy or amicable, there is a cooling-off period where the parties do not communicate. This leads to the codebases drifting apart, and to inevitable but unnecessary confusion.
- George Neville-Neil

THE SOFT SIDE OF SOFTWARE
Give Your Project a Name

The simple act of naming a project gives your team something concrete to rally behind—a collective goal. It goes a long way toward improving morale, fostering camaraderie, and igniting motivation.
- Kate Matsudaira

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