Sustainable Software

Remote working: How organizations can achieve their sustainability goals

Pierre LAGARDE April 12, 2021 Apr 12, 2021 04/12/21

By massively increasing the Hybrid Work usage (time spent in meetings has more than doubled globally, and over 40 billion more emails were delivered in February of this year compared with last. Source : Microsoft releases findings and considerations from one year of remote work in Work Trend Index - Stories), the health crisis has not only...

Build a ‘Green’ Browser Extension

Jen Looper April 7, 2021 Apr 7, 2021 04/7/21

Always wanted to build a browser extension but afraid to try? Fear no more, you can build a browser extension that calls an API to give your region's carbon usage.

Tuning Servers for Energy Savings

David Tang April 5, 2021 Apr 5, 2021 04/5/21

An overview of the key power and performance features, how to enable them, and touch on collecting traces and running benchmarks to see what’s impacted by these features. The goal of this article is to help you find the right sets of power configurations to be able to meet the demands of your workload while being energy efficient.

Deep Learning to the rescue! Mitigating anthropogenic impact upon killer whales in the Canadian Arctic and Salish Sea

Paraskevi Zerva March 29, 2021 Mar 29, 2021 03/29/21

History and Background Marine vessel traffic is having a negative anthropogenic impact on marine environments and marine mammals, such as killer whales and other cetaceans, which experience growing pressures by the increasing and constantly changing diverse anthropogenic ocean use and activities performed in coastal areas. The ...

How do I start a sustainability community in my organization?

Sara Bergman March 22, 2021 Mar 22, 2021 03/22/21

This post will outline some tips and tricks on how to get a sustainability community started in your organization, no matter if it is a company, non-profit organization or an interest group on some technical subject. The focus is on awareness and skill building and how to put it into action.

Role of Performance Engineering in Designing Carbon Efficient Applications

Srinivasan Rakhunathan March 15, 2021 Mar 15, 2021 03/15/21

What is performance testing ? Performance engineering is a software engineering discipline that deals with the techniques, processes, and metrics to make our applications more performant. It is a technique by which we tune the code that we write by measuring against the nonfunctional requirements, such as performance under a certain ...

Sustainability in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Bill Johnson February 22, 2021 Feb 22, 2021 02/22/21

This presentation and transcript were recorded for the USENIX SRECon Americas 2020 conference in December 2020. SRECon is a yearly conference focusing on the discipline of Site Reliability Engineering and acts as a gathering point for engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex ...

How Can I Calculate CO2eq emissions for my Azure VM?

Sara Bergman February 15, 2021 Feb 15, 2021 02/15/21

The second principle of Sustainable Software Engineering is to build energy efficient applications. The very first step in that direction is to measure the energy cost of your application. In this post we will look at two different Azure virtual machines, run software on them and calculate the CO2eq emissions of the software.

We need a Yuka for electricity to ease the energy transition

Pierre LAGARDE February 8, 2021 Feb 8, 2021 02/8/21

At the end of 2020, in the midst of the COVID crisis, Emmanuel Macron, French President, called for a Yuka-like application to be made available to everyone to measure all product's carbon footprint. Un « score carbone » pour évaluer l’impact environnemental des produits ? J’y suis favorable. Nous pouvons créer ensemble le @...

Adopting Azure serverless architectures to help reduce CO2 emissions – Part 2 (Extending to the Edge)

Srinivasan Rakhunathan January 25, 2021 Jan 25, 2021 01/25/21

In the previous part of the serverless architecture post for the Contoso Claim processing application, we built two components. In this iteration, we will make the architecture more sustainable by using Edge computing. Edge computing is a paradigm that brings the compute, storage, and intelligence right down to the ...