Green Software

[paul nisset]

Hi,
When you look at the environmental impact of the IT industry as a  whole , most developers would point to the impact of big players : Bitcoin mining (individuals and large  mining farms),social media server farms, AI companies  ,etc ... - as to where our focus should be. From personal perspective ,I gave up years ago just trying to get people to turn off their computers at  night when they left work.  

Does your book offer any  metrics for the actions that it proposes  for it's target audience ( I'm guessing it's probably not Zuck or Sam Altman) ?
thanks,
Paul

[Anne Currie]

Hi Paul,

The book is really about the principles that will apply to everything that runs on renewables, which have a different availability pattern to fossil fuel electricity. It's about the different architecture and ops patterns that will need to apply to everything. Fortunately, they are very much in line with modern best practices: multi tenancy, autoscaling, reduced time sensitivity, graceful downgrade options. That kind of thing. So yes, it has more effect if you are a big player but the knock on effects of adopting best practice are good for anyone.

Cheers,
Anne

[paul nisset]

Thanks.