A conference talk on applying the Technology Carbon Standard to application development and DevOps, and on which metrics actually drive a system’s carbon footprint.
In the race to build sustainable technology we often focus on the wrong metrics, or make assumptions about what drives our footprint. The talk started with an overview of tech’s impact on the planet, broke it down into the three main areas of concern (upstream, operational and downstream) to help work out which matter in a given case, then looked at the practical choices that reduce each one.
While I was there I also recorded an Architect Tomorrow episode, Green Software Engineering with Wilco at Voxxed Days Amsterdam.
