Sustainable Software

Measuring the carbon impact of web browsing

Pierre LAGARDE June 14, 2021 Jun 14, 2021 06/14/21

Search, simple click, simple letter typed in the search box have an impact on the environment when browsing Internet. Under Windows, the user spends on average 60% of his time in the browser; all of his actions can be measured and therefore can be optimized to reduce carbon emissions. How can we change our behavior? How to know your ...

The current state of affairs and a roadmap for effective carbon-accounting tooling in AI

Abhishek Gupta June 7, 2021 Jun 7, 2021 06/7/21

The societal case for carbon accounting of AI systems   Digital services consume a lot of energy and it goes without saying that in a world with accelerating climate change, we must be conscious in all parts of life with our carbon footprints. In the case of the software that we write, specifically, the AI systems we build, these ...

The Carbon Monkey

Paola May 24, 2021 May 24, 2021 05/24/21

applying chaos engineering to sustainable software to find a sweet spot that allows a differential measurement of the carbon impact of an application

Introducing EcoQoS

Raymond Li May 21, 2021 May 21, 2021 05/21/21

EcoQoS is a new Quality of Service (QoS) level introduced to Windows that developers can now opt-in to run their work efficiently, leading to better energy efficiency/increased battery life, reduced fan noise and power/thermal throttling.

Carbon proxies: Measuring the greenness of your application

Asim Hussain May 3, 2021 May 3, 2021 05/3/21

Learn how to measure how environmentally-friendly your applications are and how to build better software. Greener means better, faster, and cheaper.

How to measure the energy consumption of your apps

Sara Bergman April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

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. This post will answer the question "what is the best way to measure the energy consumption of your apps?".

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 ...