What ACM Queue does

ACM Queue is a bimonthly online publication operated by ACM, Inc. (Association for Computing Machinery), a nonprofit professional membership organization headquartered in New York City and founded in 1947. Launched in March 2003 (Volume 1, Issue 1), Queue has published continuously for over 23 years and is currently on Volume 24, Issue 3 (May/June 2026). The publication serves software practitioners, engineering leaders, and academic researchers with practitioner-oriented articles spanning AI, software development, security, systems design, formal verification, distributed computing, and developer productivity. Its content is delivered through a digital publishing platform at queue.acm.org, RSS feeds, the free QueueNews monthly newsletter, and Twitter (@ACMQueue), with full archival access available through the ACM Digital Library.

The publication is distinguished by a 20+ member editorial board of industry practitioners and academics, and features marquee columns such as Kode Vicious (by George V. Neville-Neil, an industrial visitor at the University of Cambridge) and a blog roll aggregating content from contributors at Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and other leading technology companies. The underlying technology is a standard content management system currently undergoing a website redesign (spawn-queue.acm.org). Queue's business model is embedded within ACM's broader nonprofit membership ecosystem: content is freely accessible, with revenue generated indirectly through ACM membership subscriptions, institutional access to the ACM Digital Library, and limited advertising. The publication is not a standalone commercial entity and has no disclosed revenue, no funding history, and a small operational team of 1-10 employees.

Name

ACM Queue

Legal name

ACM, Inc.

Website

https://queue.acm.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ACM Queue is a bimonthly online publication by ACM providing practitioner-oriented articles on software engineering, AI, systems design, and security to software developers, engineering leaders, and academic researchers worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Content Access: ACM Queue content is freely accessible through its website, with full archives available through ACM Digital Library. Revenue is generated through ACM membership subscriptions and potentially advertising/partnerships.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ACM Queue is a bimonthly online publication of the Association for Computing Machinery that publishes practitioner-oriented articles, columns (such as Kode Vicious), and research on computer science and software engineering topics. The publication is delivered through a website with free access, RSS feeds, a monthly email newsletter (QueueNews), and full archival access via the ACM Digital Library.

Product overview

ACM Queue is a bimonthly technology publication by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), not a software product company. Its offerings consist of the core ACM Queue Magazine publication featuring practitioner-oriented articles on software engineering and computer science, the Kode Vicious advice column, the QueueNews monthly newsletter, RSS content feeds, and a blog roll aggregating posts from Queue contributors. The publication covers topics including AI, Development, Security, Software Design, Operations, Open Source, and Testing, with issues dating back to 2003.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kode Vicious: A long-running column by George V. Neville-Neil addressing software engineering questions and best practices.
• Queue Newsletter

Products and services

• ACM Queue Magazine Bimonthly technology magazine published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) providing practitioner-oriented articles on computer science and software engineering topics.
• Kode Vicious Column Long-running advice column by George V. Neville-Neil addressing software development questions from practitioners, published in ACM Queue.
• QueueNews Newsletter Free monthly newsletter showcasing all of ACM Queue's latest articles and columns.
• ACM Queue RSS Feeds RSS feeds providing access to ACM Queue content including articles, Kode Vicious columns, and education topics.
• ACM Queue Blog Roll Aggregation of blog posts from ACM Queue authors including Tim Bray, Cory Doctorow, James Hamilton, Werner Vogels, and Greg Lehey, organized by month and blogger.

Quantifiable outcome

• Regularly publishes research-backed analysis of AI's impact on developers with survey data from 500+ developers and qualitative insights
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• IEEE Computer: IEEE Computer Society's flagship magazine covering software, systems, and computing research; directly comparable to Queue in format (periodical), audience (computing practitioners and researchers), and topic coverage (software engineering, systems, AI).
• InfoQ: Online media platform publishing news, articles, and presentations on software engineering, AI, architecture, and DevOps aimed at software practitioners; directly comparable in target audience (software developers and engineering leaders) and topical coverage, with a more frequent news-publishing cadence.
• DZone: Software development community and content platform serving software engineers with articles, tutorials, and news; comparable as a practitioner-focused engineering content outlet, though broader and more contributor-driven than Queue's curated editorial model.
• ACM Computing Surveys: ACM-published survey journal covering computing research; similar in that it is an ACM periodical used to inform practitioners and researchers, though somewhat more academic/review-focused and slightly less practitioner-applied than Queue.
• USENIX ;login: USENIX Association's practitioner-oriented magazine for systems and computing professionals; comparable as a nonprofit-association periodical publishing articles by industry practitioners for the Unix/systems community, serving a directly overlapping engineering audience.
• IEEE Software: IEEE Computer Society publication focused specifically on software engineering practice; closer topical overlap with Queue on software design, development, and operations content, and serves a similar practitioner audience.
• Communications of the ACM (CACM): ACM's flagship practitioner computing magazine; same parent organization (ACM) and the closest direct analog to Queue as an ACM-published periodical aimed at computing professionals, covering overlapping topics and serving similar engineering and academic audiences.

Emerging players

• Pragmatic Engineer: Substack-led newsletter and publication focused on software engineering, engineering leadership, and tech industry analysis; comparable in audience (engineering leaders, senior ICs) but distinct in format (paid newsletter vs. bimonthly magazine) and commercial orientation.
• The Morning Paper: Long-form deep reviews of computer science papers aimed at practitioners and senior engineers; overlapping with Queue's research-meets-practice angle and serving a similar audience of senior software engineers, but distributed as a personal blog rather than a periodical.

Others

• Hacker News (Y Combinator): Software practitioner community and discussion platform; not a publication in Queue's sense but a primary discovery and commentary channel competing for the same practitioner attention that Queue targets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ACMQueue
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Number of profiles

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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