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What Carbon Neutral Really Means and How Net-Zero Is Different
Carbon neutrality means that the total amount of emissions is either eliminated, neutralized, or compensated. Net-zero is a target that doesn’t include compensation and puts more emphasis on avoiding carbon emissions. Many products, data centers, or companies are already carbon neutral, but few have reached net-zero. The problem with offsetting approaches is that you continue to emit carbon.
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Is ChatGPT Fit for Every Purpose: Alan Turing Ethics Fellow Presents Checklist in Devoxx UK Keynote
During her keynote at Devoxx UK, Mhairi Aitken talked about the limitations of AI when grappling with the complexities of human language. Further, she provided checklist developers use to inspect the AI Foundations before building on top of them. She urged us to be guided by ethical and social considerations when building on AI, as a general-purpose AI model may not be fit for every purpose.
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Holly Cummins at Devoxx UK: How Would the Business Benefit from Your Greener Java Application?
At her Devoxx UK presentation, Holly Cummins, senior software principal engineer at Redhat, presented approaches that could make Java applications more cost and energy efficient. Moreover, the business would benefit too. Showcasing the work done by her team with quarkus she states that choosing wisely between the JVM or native options in your application can save up to two-times costs and carbon.
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Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them
At QCon London, Holly Cummins, Quarkus senior principal software engineer at RedHat, talked about how utilization and elasticity relate to sustainability. In addition, she introduced a range of practical zombie-hunting techniques, including absurdly simple automation, LightSwitchOps, and FinOps.
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Cloud Provider Sustainability: the Need for a Workload Carbon Footprint Standard
Adrian Cockcroft, tech advisor and former VP for sustainability architecture at Amazon, shared his vision at QCon London on sustainability commitments for cloud providers and the current challenges in determining their supply chain carbon footprint. Cockcroft advocated for a new real-time carbon footprint standard.
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The AI Revolution Is Just Getting Started: Leslie Miley Bids Us to Act Now against Its Bias and CO2
At his inaugural keynote of the QCON London conference, Leslie Miley, technical advisor for the CTO at Microsoft, spoke about AI Bias and Sustainability, and how the march towards transformative technologies, like large-scale AI and even crypto, has an inherent cost in the increased CO2 that comes with deployment at scale. More than just context and impact, he suggests mitigation techniques.
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Green Software Development - What Can You Do Now, and Where is the Industry Heading?
Making code more efficient often ends up saving carbon. Storing less information and compressing it can also lower your carbon footprint. There are open-source projects and standards and guides available that can be used to increase sustainability in software development. Measurement standardization is needed to compare the environmental impact of cloud suppliers.
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Sustainability for Development and Operations with DevSusOps
For a sustainability transformation, a business has to figure out how to measure its carbon footprint, come up with a plan to change the way it powers everything, and change the products they’re making, and even the markets that they operate in. Adrian Cockcroft spoke about sustainability in development and operations at QCon San Francisco 2022.
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Sustainability for Software Companies: Reducing Impact by Deciding What Not to Do
Small and medium-sized companies can contribute to sustainability with emissions reduction, mental health offerings and inclusion. To support sustainability, software engineers can think about “what not to do” to reduce complexity and make solutions smaller, resulting in a smaller carbon footprint.
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Azure Adds Sustainability Guidance to Well-Architected Framework
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced new technical guidance within the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) to help customers and partners achieve their sustainability goals.
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QCon Plus 2022: Join Us Virtually for Quality Content and Connections
QCon Plus, the online software development conference organized by InfoQ, is returning this November 29-December 9, with an international community of senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders joining. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this event!
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QCon Events 2022: Uncover Emerging Trends & Learn From Practitioners Driving Innovation in Software
QCon offers two international software development conference formats, in-person QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-28) and online QCon Plus (Nov 29-Dec 9). Level up on the skills most in demand in the industry by uncovering emerging software trends to solve your complex engineering challenges.
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Google Cloud Launches New Sustainability Offerings for Climate Resiliency
At the recent Sustainability Summit, Google launched several new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies and researchers to improve climate resilience. These offerings are Climate Insights for natural resources and Climate Insights for infrastructure.
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QCon San Francisco: Tracks Announced Including Green Tech, Microservices, API, MLOps and More
QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-28), powered by InfoQ, brings together the world's most innovative senior software engineers, architects and team leads across multiple domains to share their real-world implementation of emerging trends and practices.
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Green Software Development: Terminology and Climate Commitments Explained by Microsoft at Devoxx UK
As a side effect of the accelerated move towards the cloud, the software industry is contributing more and more to global warming. Companies have taken on different commitments: Net-Zero, Carbon Neutral, etc. Asim Hussain, Green Cloud Advocacy Lead @ Microsoft deciphers them during the Devoxx UK keynote. Understanding them will help developers move the needle for each type of commitment.