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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Resource Efficient Software

Hendrik Lösch

Are your microservices quietly draining your budget and the electric grid? Discover how a zero-data approach minimizes infrastructure waste, slashes cloud costs, and shrinks your software's carbon footprint.

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#1 about 2 min

Exploring resource efficiency and ecological sustainability goals

An overview of ecological sustainability goals and current standard efficiency guidelines.

#2 about 3 min

Balancing ecological motivations with primary business drivers

How developers and management must overcome differing motivations to align on hardware and energy efficiency.

#3 about 4 min

Interpreting programming language benchmarks and energy consumption logic

Why evaluating language efficiency requires analyzing the entire software ecosystem rather than isolated computation benchmarks.

#4 about 3 min

Standardizing software carbon intensity and emission calculation methods

Establishing standardized metrics around energy and hardware efficiency enables actionable software carbon awareness.

#5 about 4 min

Applying effectiveness concepts throughout the software architecture lifecycle

Incorporating non-functional requirements during business and enterprise architecture planning ensures long-term structural efficiency.

#6 about 4 min

Understanding ESG criteria and European sustainability reporting directives

Upcoming regulatory shifts like the CSRD mandate tracking carbon emissions alongside traditional business metrics.

#7 about 6 min

Optimizing runtime compute, storage, and transmission in software

Evaluating application runtime architecture surfaces opportunities to reduce dark data and expensive network transmission footprints.

#8 about 3 min

Minimizing data storage and adopting zero data principles

Limiting initial data collection and strictly defining retention limits directly reduces computation and storage overhead.

#9 about 5 min

Implementing architectural best practices for sustainable software systems

Practical methods like edge optimization, time-shifted processing, and strategic procurement dramatically lower ecosystem emissions.

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Connecting web performance optimization to ecological sustainability

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3:29 min

Optimizing software architectures to minimize infrastructure resource drain

Hendrik Lösch Hendrik Lösch · WWC 2024

4:18 min

Applying standard metrics to measure software carbon intensity

Hendrik Lösch Hendrik Lösch · WWC 2024

3:48 min

Framing sustainability as resource efficiency for leadership buy-in

Hendrik Lösch Hendrik Lösch · WWC 2024

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