Sustainable Software

The Carbon Footprint Of AI

Will BuchananOctober 26, 2020Oct 26, 202010/26/20

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.

Achieving 2030 Sustainable Development Goals using Cloud

Alex BitiukovOctober 19, 2020Oct 19, 202010/19/20

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.

Reducing the carbon and financial cost of your cloud applications

PaolaOctober 12, 2020Oct 12, 202010/12/20

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 ...

Carbon-Aware Kubernetes

Bill JohnsonOctober 5, 2020Oct 5, 202010/5/20

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 ...

How Demand Shifting Compute Accelerates Our Energy Transition to Renewables

Conor KellyOctober 1, 2020Oct 1, 202010/1/20

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 ...

Measuring Your Application Power and Carbon Impact (Part 1)

Scott ChamberlinSeptember 14, 2020Sep 14, 202009/14/20

Overview of using the built in Energy Estimation Engine to estimate the carbon impact of your application.

Network Optimization for Sustainable Software Engineering

Alex BitiukovSeptember 7, 2020Sep 7, 202009/7/20

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.

Do you want to be powered-by renewables? The answer is no.

Asim HussainAugust 31, 2020Aug 31, 202008/31/20

Does a 100% supply of renewable energy make computing guilt-free? The answer depends on if you are being powered-by or matched-by renewables and is always "no".

Balancing the Three Areas of Sustainability Engineering

Bill JohnsonAugust 24, 2020Aug 24, 202008/24/20

Sustainability in Software Engineering Software engineering has evolved over the years as new capabilities are discovered and new information introduced. Software developers and operations engineers were typically seen as two very separate roles. Once the cloud began to commoditize hardware these roles began to blend together into a new ...