Sustainable Software

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September 2020 - Sustainable Software

How to measure the power consumption of your backend service

September 21, 2020 Sep 21, 2020 09/21/20
Sara Bergman
The second principle of Sustainable Software Engineering is to build energy efficient applications. The very first steppingstone in that direction is to measure the energy your application consumes. This post will answer the question "what is the best way to measure the energy consumption of your backend service?".

Network Optimization for Sustainable Software Engineering

September 7, 2020 Sep 7, 2020 09/7/20
Alex Bitiukov
Designing network infrastructure upfront can reduce customer’s carbon footprint as well as the carbon footprint of their cloud provider. This also represents a paradigm shift in how cloud services are designed, planned, and deployed. Just like designing with accessibility in mind became a common software development life cycle.