Carbon intensity

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

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.

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. Enterprises can take several steps toward understanding cloud costs ...

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 ...

Sustainable Software