Category: Measurement from 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 ...

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...

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.

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

Scott Chamberlin December 21, 2020 Dec 21, 2020 12/21/20

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 To Measure The Power Consumption of Your Frontend Application

Sara Bergman November 16, 2020 Nov 16, 2020 11/16/20

The Carbon Footprint Of AI

Will Buchanan October 26, 2020 Oct 26, 2020 10/26/20

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.

Measuring Your Application Power and Carbon Impact (Part 1)

Scott Chamberlin September 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020 09/14/20

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

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