Sustainable Software Engineering

Sustainable Software Engineering (SSE) and the role and responsibilities of a Sustainable Software Engineer

January 19, 2022 Jan 19, 2022 01/19/22

Fabrizio Morando

Sustainable Software Engineering is a new discipline that brings together climatology, software and hardware technology and data center designs. In this post I will clarify these principles, describing the possible role of the Sustainable Software Engineer, with consequent responsibilities and skills necessary to interpret it at the best.

Using ML to monitor coral reef bleaching

October 18, 2021 Oct 18, 2021 10/18/21

Paraskevi Zerva

Coral Reefs & Bleaching Events Coral reefs form home for an estimated 25% of all marine life incorporating more than four thousand species of fish and over a million other aquatic species that live, breed, and are dependent on coral reef ecosystems during their lifetime [1]. This number is significantly important if we consider that...

Measuring the carbon impact of web browsing

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

Pierre LAGARDE

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

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

Abhishek Gupta

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

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

Paola

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

May 21, 2021 May 21, 2021 05/21/21

Raymond Li

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

May 3, 2021 May 3, 2021 05/3/21

Asim Hussain

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

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

Sara Bergman

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

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

Pierre LAGARDE

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

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

Jen Looper

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.

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