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Maybe WebAssembly Is the Next Evolutionary Step From Containers: Fermyon at InfoQ DevSummit Munich
During her presentation at the inaugural edition of the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Danielle Lancashire, principal software engineer at Fermyon and co-chair of the CNCF wasm-wg, hinted at WebAssembly containers as a greener alternative and a potential evolution from the current containerised approach to serverless computing.
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Measuring and Reducing the Environmental Impact of Software
Software applications often manage big amounts of data; most of them are internet-based applications, and incorporate artificial intelligence. According to Coral Calero, these three aspects improve the capabilities and functionalities provided by software but they have also increased the amount of energy needed. We need to measure energy consumption of software to control its environmental impact.
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How AWS Well-Architected Framework Supports Frugal Architecture
AWS shared how to deliver frugal architecture using Well-Architectured Framework guidance. The authors outline areas of alignment between the WAF and the Frugal Architect laws Dr. Werner Vogels introduced in his re:Invent 2023 keynote. By implementing the frugal approach, organizations can achieve sustainability and cost optimization goals for their cloud architectures.
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Uber Migrates 1 Trillion Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6 Million Annually
Uber migrated all its payment transaction data from DynamoDB and blob storage into a new long-term solution, a purpose-built data store named LedgerStore. The company was looking for cost savings and had previously reduced the use of DynamoDB to store hot data (12 weeks old). The move resulted in significant savings and simplified the storage architecture.
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How to Do Sustainable Software Development
Software sustainability includes computing for environmental purposes and using resources appropriately. According to Coral Calero, software engineers need a holistic way of looking at software and should be aware of the environmental impact of software. Several tools and frameworks are available for software engineers to do sustainable software development.
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KubeCon EU Keynotes: a Call to Action to Innovate Responsibly with Generative AI
The KubeCon EU morning keynotes were a veritable call to action encouraging the cloud-native community's involvement in building the scalable infrastructure needed by generative AI. This call was balanced with encouragement to make a cloud-native platform’s “golden path” green and sustainable, ensuring that any innovation is also responsible.
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Sustainable Product Development Using Agile and Value Stream Mapping
Sustainable product development can be done by combining agile with concepts from the circular economy in our daily work. Value stream mapping can be extended to incorporate circular economy principles to optimize the flow of materials, information, and energy usage.
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Why Your Workloads Do Not Run on Renewable Energy (Yet) and What to Do about it
Renewable energy is an important step on the way to fight climate change. The energy produced by burning fossil resources is one of the main drivers of carbon emissions. But running a datacenter on renewable energy all the time is difficult. Usually - with only a few exceptions - your workloads do not run on renewable energy.
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Sustainable Software Systems Using Circular Economy Principles
The circular economy is a framework that aims to keep products and materials in use for as long as possible, reducing waste and pollution, and regenerating natural systems. As practitioners or change enablers, we can support sustainable product development using concepts from the circular economy in our daily work.
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What Carbon Neutral Really Means and How Net-Zero Is Different
Carbon neutrality means that the total amount of emissions is either eliminated, neutralized, or compensated. Net-zero is a target that doesn’t include compensation and puts more emphasis on avoiding carbon emissions. Many products, data centers, or companies are already carbon neutral, but few have reached net-zero. The problem with offsetting approaches is that you continue to emit carbon.
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Holly Cummins at Devoxx UK: How Would the Business Benefit from Your Greener Java Application?
At her Devoxx UK presentation, Holly Cummins, senior software principal engineer at Redhat, presented approaches that could make Java applications more cost and energy efficient. Moreover, the business would benefit too. Showcasing the work done by her team with quarkus she states that choosing wisely between the JVM or native options in your application can save up to two-times costs and carbon.
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Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them
At QCon London, Holly Cummins, Quarkus senior principal software engineer at RedHat, talked about how utilization and elasticity relate to sustainability. In addition, she introduced a range of practical zombie-hunting techniques, including absurdly simple automation, LightSwitchOps, and FinOps.
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The AI Revolution Is Just Getting Started: Leslie Miley Bids Us to Act Now against Its Bias and CO2
At his inaugural keynote of the QCON London conference, Leslie Miley, technical advisor for the CTO at Microsoft, spoke about AI Bias and Sustainability, and how the march towards transformative technologies, like large-scale AI and even crypto, has an inherent cost in the increased CO2 that comes with deployment at scale. More than just context and impact, he suggests mitigation techniques.
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Green Software Development - What Can You Do Now, and Where is the Industry Heading?
Making code more efficient often ends up saving carbon. Storing less information and compressing it can also lower your carbon footprint. There are open-source projects and standards and guides available that can be used to increase sustainability in software development. Measurement standardization is needed to compare the environmental impact of cloud suppliers.
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Sustainability for Development and Operations with DevSusOps
For a sustainability transformation, a business has to figure out how to measure its carbon footprint, come up with a plan to change the way it powers everything, and change the products they’re making, and even the markets that they operate in. Adrian Cockcroft spoke about sustainability in development and operations at QCon San Francisco 2022.