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December 2020 - Sustainable Software

Does the Language You Choose Change the Carbon Impact of Client UI Apps?

December 21, 2020 Dec 21, 2020 12/21/20
Scott Chamberlin
In my previous post here, I went over how you can use the energy monitoring framework built into Windows (on battery powered devices) to estimate the energy consumption of your applications.  In this post, I am taking it a step further and using the energy monitoring framework to evaluate application tradeoffs a developer might make to ...

How Azure.com uses Serverless Functions for Consumption-based utilization and reduced always-on electric footprint

December 14, 2020 Dec 14, 2020 12/14/20
Aaron Hogue
In June 2020, we shared how Azure.com achieves a global scale and how Sustainable Software Engineering principles were at the center. In this post we discuss how serverless architecture helped us create more sustainable apps and saved us 10x in azure spend for our data pipeline middleware. By shifting our workloads from always-on to on-demand...

Adopting Azure serverless architectures to help reduce CO2 emissions – Part 1

December 7, 2020 Dec 7, 2020 12/7/20
Srinivasan Rakhunathan
The article explains how serverless architectures can be used to enable sustainable software engineering principles. It takes a sample claim processing system and provides a thought process on how to use Azure serverless components like functions and Event grid to build out a reference architecture and showcase key design patterns.