Tech Confronts Its Use of the Labels ‘Master’ and ‘Slave’

Last month, on Juneteenth—June 19—the data management company Delphix hosted a hackathon for employees to make coding terminology at the company more inclusive. Engineers tailored replacements for master/slave to specific contexts, says Sebastien Roy, the company’s director of systems platform development. Alternatives included active/standby, writer/reader, parent/child, and leader/follower. A reference to blacklist was changed to […]