WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Apr 18, 2023

An Architect’s guide to reducing the carbon footprint of your applications

Ricardo Sueiras Sueiras

Treat sustainability as a core architectural requirement, not an afterthought. Discover how right-sizing microservices, leveraging ARM processors, and scaling to zero will drastically shrink your application's carbon footprint.

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