Thursday, November 28, 2023 @ 6 - 8PM
As cloud professionals, we have a unique opportunity and important responsibility to make a significant impact on the sustainability of the internet. In this talk I outline key best practices that will help organizations reduce the environmental impact of their cloud usage. This talk skews towards cloud-native and open source concepts.
The top 10 best practices I outline in the talk are:
- Measure and experiment
- Use the cloud
- Spatial and temporal optimization for low-carbon
- Optimize for energy efficiency (and carbon efficiency)
- Use Async and batch processing
- Build for Security
- Use ethical data practices
- Use Open Source Software
- Optimize CI/CD
- Frameworks are your friends
Slides deployed here.
- Green Software Foundation: A non-profit organization dedicated to building a trusted ecosystem of people and companies for creating sustainable digital products.
- Electricity Maps: Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption
- Green Web Foundation: A non-profit organization with a mission to speed up the transition to a green internet by informing and enabling organizations and people to make better, greener choices when they build and use the web.
- W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines: A set of guidelines for building a more sustainable web.
- Website Carbon Calculator: A tool to help you measure the carbon emissions of your website.
- Sustainable Web Design: A website dedicated to helping people build a more sustainable web.
- AWS Well-Architected Framework - Sustainability Pillar: A framework for building a sustainable cloud architecture.
- Cloud Carbon Footprint: A tool to help you measure the carbon emissions of your cloud usage.
- ClimateActionTech: A community of tech professionals using our skills, expertise and platforms to support solutions to the climate crisis.
- CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Week: A week of events focused on sustainability in cloud native computing.
- TAG Environmental Sustainability 🌳🌍♻️: The environmental sustainability working group of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group (TAG).
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