Shift-Left Sustainability: How to develop green software by design
Today, sustainability is an afterthought for most software applications.
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A collection of 5 posts
How to measure software carbon emissions for actionable insights
What is the best way to measure the carbon emissions of a software application? What tools or methodologies should we use?
Calling for a greener Internet: Decentralized with smaller data centers
The electricity consumption of data centers has been continuously increasing. For example, in Ireland, data center electricity use tripled from 5% in 2015 to 14% in 2021. In West London, there is no capacity in the electricity grid to power...
A guide to sustainable software engineering: How to architect your applications to reduce their environmental footprint & help prevent climate change
As software engineers, we build applications that eventually run on one or more servers, which consume electricity. Electricity is commonly generated by fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas); when burned, they produce carbon dioxide (CO2), which is the main driver of...
Reduce the cloud bill of your Java applications
Are you running your applications on the cloud? If yes, then you already know that your cloud provider charges you according to the resources (CPU, memory, disk) used by your applications. The more resources your applications consume, the higher your...