Skip to content- Is global warming a known system behavior?
- 'Thinking in Systems' book led me to think that the reason for global warming could be the tragedy of the commons
- How much Carbon does my Server emit?
- Have you ever wondered how much carbon your server, laptop, or virtual machine use? Well, I did, and in this article, I present you with the findings.
- What are the greenest regions in the AWS?
- How do you consider a Cloud region green region? What is a carbon footprint and how to measure it on AWS? What are the greenest regions to run your workloads on AWS? These, and a couple of more questions we answer in this article.
- What are the greenest regions in Azure?
- What are emission scopes and what do they mean? What are the methods to calculate those emissions? Which methods Microsoft uses to calculate them? What regions are the greenest one on Azure? These and more questions we answer in this article!
- What are the greenest regions in GCP?
- What is PUE, and how is it calculated? Why is important? What are the greenest regions in the GCP and where you can find that information? This, and many more, you can find out in this article.
- Exploring Carbon Awareness: No, It's Not a Trendy Mindfulness Practice!
- Have you ever heard about carbon awareness? What it is and how can be implemented? In this article, we'll cover just that, and also bring you an overall understanding of the concept and what it means for the environment.
- A deeper look into Data Centres
- What is the measure of effectiveness of a Data centre? What besides electricity goes into DCs? Which steps with DCs we need to take in order to prevent IT from worsening global warming?
- Deep Dive into Scope 3 Emissions
- Ever wondered about the hidden part of carbon emissions? What’s Scope 3, and why does it matter? How does your morning coffee contribute to it? Stay tuned to unveil the ‘elephant in the room’!
- Exploring the Green APIs
- Have you ever wondered, is there an API you can call and get the carbon emission data of a specific location? It would be cool to have something like this, so we can make our applications carbon-aware, wouldn't it? Look no further! In this article I'm exploring just that!
- A Lesson in Carbon Awareness
- Embarking on a carbon-aware journey, I've tried to reshape my website to match energy usage with its source. From different places, I’ve learned the complexities and the challenges this task brings. Join me in learning what I've found so far!
- How learning one word can shift perspective?
- Browsing through the Mastodon, some time ago, led me to a word I didn't quite know or understand. It turned out to be a trigger for learning new things.
- Sustainability Fatigue - the Two Hows
- Have you ever felt overwhelmed by a certain topic? Nowadays, more so than not.
- Demoing the Cloud Carbon Footprint
- Estimating carbon emissions from cloud resources can be hard. Especially because providers can be quite 'stingy' with the reporting. In this article, we look into Cloud Carbon Footprint tool. What it is, what it does, and how it can help you get (better) overview of emissions from cloud resources.
- Why you don't need that new and cool device everyone is talking about?
- Buying a new device is not always a good option. This is because devices emit carbon long before we start using them. Find out why this happens and how can we help, in this article.
- Advocating for Sustainability in your company
- You are passionate about the sustainability, but the company where you work seems indifferent about it? What can you do to change that? Find out in this article!
- A Greenwashing Detection Kit
- We all heard about the term Greenwashing, right? Or, at least, most of us did. And most of us know about it, but, do we actually know how to spot it in the wild? Check out this article to find out how.
- Demoing Kepler Exporter
- Have you ever wondered if you can track the power consumption of your machines? The short answer is - yes! The 'how?' question is the interesting part of it. And we dive into that, and many more, in this article!
- Demoing Scaphandre
- Tracking power consumption of your computing devices is important. That's why, in this article, we go through another tool that helps you do just that! Join me in the journey of learning about and exploring Scaphandre.
- Greening the CI/CD Pipeline
- What has my experience working with CI/CD pipelines taught me when it comes to make them more sustainable?
- Six months of using a fair smartphone
- Did you know that the average lifespan of a smartphone is only 2.5 years? And did you also know that from a climate perspective, this period needs to be a lot longer? Well, there is a solution for that.
- Data centres and an increase in energy consumption
- Have you ever wondered how the AI impacted the energy and water consumptions of data centres? In this article, we delve into that question.
- Where to start with (digital) sustainability?
- You're interested in digital sustainability and aren't sure where to start? This is the post for you!
- Turning the lights on/off in Kubernetes clusters
- How to make your Kubernetes cluster more sustainable and power-efficient?
- Turning the lights on/off ON Kubernetes cluster nodes
- How to make your entire Kubernetes cluster more efficient?
- What is a 'greener' architecture - monoliths or microservices?
- Microservices or monoliths - what you should use to make your application more sustainable?
- Does running on green provider make our software green?
- Do you think green cloud makes your software green? Not so fast! While renewable energy powers your apps today, there's a hidden cost in all that hardware. Discover why true digital sustainability means looking beyond the power bill and how efficient code can impact both sides of the equation.
- From Kubernetes to Low Carbon-netes: Optimizing K8s Infrastructure and Workloads for Sustainability
- Wondering what is the environmental impact of your Kubernetes clusters? How much energy is consumed and Carbon emitted by them? You are in the right place! Discover the steps that can help you measure and reduce the environmental footprint of your Kubernetes environments.
- Is subscription-based life sustainable?
- We see subscriptions all around us! Subscriptions are everywhere - from applications, blogs, YouTube, to devices, and even underwear! But, where does it end? The subscription-based model might be a sustainable one for products nowadays, but is it sustainable for our Planet?
- Reading the book - Building Green Software
- Have you heard about the book Building Green Software? In this article, I'm going through my notes and share with you the most useful points I got from reading the book. Read through the end because I've prepared some interesting bonus content!
- How to scale pods based on Carbon Intensity?
- Autoscaling in K8s is quite interesting topic, and it's often done to the resource when performance requests increase. What if we would take another look and scale up the resources only when the energy we're using is greener?
- One look at failure after unlocking the Pixel 2 bootloader
- How small things can help you learn valuable lessons in failure.