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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 ...

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...

Adopting Azure serverless architectures to help reduce CO2 emissions – Part 2 (Extending to the Edge)

January 25, 2021 Jan 25, 2021 01/25/21
Srinivasan Rakhunathan
  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 ...

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.