WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Apr 18, 2023

It's not easy being green

Marjolein Pordon

Is your bloated codebase contributing to the climate crisis? Discover how integrating green software principles into your agile workflows guarantees faster, highly performant, and planet-friendly applications.

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Coding for environmental sustainability in software engineering

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Building an implementation strategy for green software

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