Software Architect
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Thought that your software applications do not have any impact on the environment? Guess again! Your applications run on servers that consume electricity, commonly generated by burning coal/oil/gas, producing carbon dioxide (CO2), the main driver of climate change.
In November 2021 I spoke at Devoxx Ukraine, with the its main theme being “Engineering a Sustainable World”. I delivered an online talk about practices developers and architects can adopt to lower the environmental impact of software applications.
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...