Green coding aims to minimize software energy consumption, requiring a return to mindful resource usage similar to early development constraints.
The primary goal is to stop adding carbon to the atmosphere, not just slow emissions, to achieve net-zero and combat climate change.
Build lightweight applications and use serverless architectures to automatically scale resources, reducing energy consumption and costs.
Run workloads in regions with low carbon intensity or shift them to times when renewable energy is abundant to reduce emissions.
Extend the lifespan of hardware by creating lightweight applications and opting for refurbished devices to reduce carbon from manufacturing.
Cloud providers achieve high energy efficiency through optimized server utilization, a principle that can be applied by using smaller VMs and auto-scaling.
Minimize network-related energy use by implementing caching, using CDNs, compressing data, and choosing efficient data formats like CSV or Avro.
Shape application demand to match the available renewable energy supply and reduce unnecessary data storage by deleting old logs and events.
Use proxies like cloud costs, network traffic, and application performance to measure and continuously optimize for carbon efficiency.
Adopting green coding practices meets user demand for sustainability, saves costs, improves performance, and fulfills corporate responsibility.
Discussion covers leading green cloud providers, convincing management with cost benefits, and using serverless and microservices for efficiency.
ROSEN Technology and Research Center GmbH
Lingen (Ems), Germany
09:23Kent Simonsen
29:31Pierre-Luc Noel & Fritz Reichmann
57:45Robert Hoffmann & Christian Denich
23:00Gerta Sheganaku & Waldemar Hummer
41:56Austin Gil
55:18Ricardo Sueiras Sueiras
37:09Simon Copsey
1:02:22Marjolein Pordon
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