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

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

December 14, 2020 Dec 14, 2020 12/14/20
Aaron Hogue
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

December 7, 2020 Dec 7, 2020 12/7/20
Srinivasan Rakhunathan
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.

The Carbon Footprint Of AI

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

Reducing the carbon and financial cost of your cloud applications

October 12, 2020 Oct 12, 2020 10/12/20
Paola
In my job as a cloud architect working with large enterprises, there has always been a specific “moment of truth” when the customer realizes that cloud costs are something that needs to be monitored daily to avoid unpleasant surprises with the end of the month’s bill. (image) Enterprises can take several steps toward understanding cloud...

Carbon-Aware Kubernetes

October 5, 2020 Oct 5, 2020 10/5/20
Bill Johnson
If you are running microservices these days there is a high probability you are managing them with Kubernetes. Kubernetes makes container management easy and its websites boasts of “Planet Scale”, “Never Outgrow”, and “Run Anywhere” as some of its key features. As a Sustainable Software Engineer, I read those phrases as more of a ...