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Sustainability in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Bill JohnsonFebruary 22, 2021Feb 22, 202102/22/21

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 BergmanFebruary 15, 2021Feb 15, 202102/15/21

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 LAGARDEFebruary 8, 2021Feb 8, 202102/8/21

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 RakhunathanJanuary 25, 2021Jan 25, 202101/25/21

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 ...

A dapper sustainability

PaolaJanuary 18, 2021Jan 18, 202101/18/21

How a runtime open source project like Dapr can help make applications more sustainable, and call to action for developers to contribute with their work to a sustainable microservice that can measure and optimize the carbon impact of a Dapr application.

Using software for sustainability – How Surfrider protects the oceans with AI

Christopher ManeuJanuary 12, 2021Jan 12, 202101/12/21

On the Sustainable Software blog, there have been a lot of great articles around reducing the environmental impact of software. This article covers a software platform built for helping sustainability. Discover how a team of Open-Source contributors helps an NGO

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

Scott ChamberlinDecember 21, 2020Dec 21, 202012/21/20

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 Azure.com uses Serverless Functions for Consumption-based utilization and reduced always-on electric footprint

Aaron HogueDecember 14, 2020Dec 14, 202012/14/20

In June 2020, we shared how Azure.com achieves a global scale and how Sustainable Software Engineering principles were at the center. In this post we discuss how serverless architecture helped us create more sustainable apps and saved us 10x in azure spend for our data pipeline middleware. By shifting our workloads from always-on to on-demand...

Adopting Azure serverless architectures to help reduce CO2 emissions – Part 1

Srinivasan RakhunathanDecember 7, 2020Dec 7, 202012/7/20

The article explains how serverless architectures can be used to enable sustainable software engineering principles. It takes a sample claim processing system and provides a thought process on how to use Azure serverless components like functions and Event grid to build out a reference architecture and showcase key design patterns.

Green Energy Efficient Progressive Web Apps

David RoussetNovember 30, 2020Nov 30, 202011/30/20

The average Windows user spends 60% of their time in the browser and therefore... on web pages. As a web developer, can we adjust our code to reduce its carbon footprint? This post discusses two ways to make web applications more energy efficient.

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