Showing results for October 2020 - Sustainable Software

Oct 26, 2020
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The Carbon Footprint Of AI

Will Buchanan
Will Buchanan

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform how we fight climate change. However, it also increasingly contributes to it: the carbon footprint of AI is growing exponentially. Bigger models, more data, and deployments contribute towards 'RedAI'. A nascent field called 'GreenAI' is focused on measuring & mitigating this.

MeasurementSustainable Software EngineeringRenewables
Oct 19, 2020
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Achieving 2030 Sustainable Development Goals using Cloud

Alex Bitiukov
Alex Bitiukov

Developer community has opportunity to help the world achieve 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals by adopting Sustainable Software Engineering practices as well as building applications that have positive first and second order effects on one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Sustainable Software Engineering
Oct 12, 2020
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Reducing the carbon and financial cost of your cloud applications

Paola
Paola

In my job as a cloud architect working with large enterprises, there has always been a specific “moment of truth” when the customer realizes that cloud costs are something that needs to be monitored daily to avoid unpleasant surprises with the end of the month’s bill. Enterprises can take several steps toward understanding cloud costs and ...

Sustainable Software Engineering
Oct 5, 2020
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Carbon-Aware Kubernetes

Bill Johnson
Bill Johnson

If you are running microservices these days there is a high probability you are managing them with Kubernetes. Kubernetes makes container management easy and its websites boasts of “Planet Scale”, “Never Outgrow”, and “Run Anywhere” as some of its key features. As a Sustainable Software Engineer, I read those phrases as more of a ...

Sustainable Software Engineering
Oct 1, 2020
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How Demand Shifting Compute Accelerates Our Energy Transition to Renewables

Conor Kelly
Conor Kelly

The world has been busy building renewable energy these last few years. Since the costs of solar and wind energy have dropped below the costs of operating existing fossil fuel plants, particularly coal, wind, and solar have grown to contribute significant portions of electricity consumption globally. These renewable energy sources create windows of...

Sustainable Software EngineeringRenewables