GreenCoding: How cloud native software reduces carbon footprint

Panel Discussion

Green AI - Case-Study

Decarbonising An AI System

The talk uses a real-life example to show how AI systems can cause less environmental impact with the same performance. Tried and tested tools will be presented to reduce the environmental impact of AI systems. The focus is explicitly not on general methods for green software, but on specific fields of action from the AI sector. After the presentation, the audience will have a general overview of the relevant fields of action in the area of sustainable AI and will be able to name the most effective and low-threshold methods. The talk is aimed at developers who have a basic understanding of the development of AI systems. However, the content is also understandable without specific AI experience.

Sustainable programming

Recommendations for environmentally friendly software development

This article discusses the integration of sustainability in software development, emphasizing the need for a holistic view of environmental impacts throughout the software lifecycle. It highlights the importance of aligning energy-intensive tasks with the availability of renewable energy, minimizing resource consumption through careful design, and prioritizing the longevity and compatibility of software to combat technical obsolescence. Additionally, it explores strategies such as caching and data optimization to reduce the environmental footprint. These practices are presented as essential for developing eco-responsible technologies that respond to contemporary ecological challenges, promoting a mature, future-oriented perspective within the technology industry.

Nachhaltiges Programmieren – Empfehlungen für umweltfreundliche Softwareentwicklung | Digitale Welt

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Practical recommendations for environmentally friendly software architectures

Sustainability on a structural and conceptual level

This article explores sustainable software architectures, emphasizing the importance of integrating environmental considerations early in the design process. It discusses strategies such as continuous resource consumption monitoring, asynchronous processing of non-critical workloads, and the use of modular and elastic designs to enhance efficiency. The paper also highlights the significance of optimizing storage and balancing computational offloading decisions to minimize environmental impacts, promoting a holistic approach to sustainable software development.

Praktische Empfehlungen für umweltfreundliche Software-Architekturen

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Green IT building blocks

Building blocks of ecologically sustainable corporate IT

Sustainability in IT is no longer a niche topic. More and more IT managers are making a public commitment to reducing the environmental impact of the IT for which they are responsible. This blog post provides an overview of specific aspects that should not be missing from a holistic green IT strategy.

Green IT - building blocks of ecologically sustainable corporate IT

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Green coding guidelines

Guidelines for the development of sustainable software

Green coding is one of the top trends in software development in 2024, but what does green coding actually mean? In this blog post, I present criteria catalogues for sustainable software development and suggest what really matters.

Green coding – Guidelines for the development of sustainable software

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Green Requirements in software development

How and why should you take the environment into account

Currently the software development process is still very much fragmented. Often project leads and product managers don’t take the whole lifecycle of their product into account. This results in over engineered products which incorporate bloated features which sometimes neither anyone uses, nor anyone needs. But at the end of the day those features and digital products as a whole have an impact on the environment. Digital products require resources to get produced, to operate and finally disposed or recycled. In this talk Yelle Lieder will talk about the best way to avoid those pitfalls from developing the right strategy, how important it is that digital solutions solve real problems and what crucial role green requirements play in this.

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Green AI

About data, training, inference and our planet.

Presentation at the conference of the world's largest AI community.

Global AI Conference - 12 December 2023

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Sustainable digital product development

Product & UX requirements

Talk about green product management. The talk can be viewed in the recordings in the XU School of Sustainability after logging in.

ECO:DIGIT

Enabling green COmputing and DIGItal Transformation

Introduction of the ECO:DIGIT research project.

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Sustainable digital design

Guidelines for sustainable UX and UI

Blog post on sustainability of UX and UI work.

Sustainable digital design – guidelines for sustainable UX and UI

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Testing the sustainability of software

Technical publication on measuring the sustainability of software

Nachhaltigkeit von Software testen - silicon.de

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Green Software Architecture

Guidelines for ecologically sustainable software architectures

Blog post on best practices for sustainable software architectures.

Guidelines for ecologically sustainable software architectures

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ecotime.app

Web app that shows if local electricity is sustainable right now.

EcoTime is a frontend application that provides real-time carbon intensity data for your location's energy grid. It estimates the environmental impact of your current energy consumption, enabling you to make informed decisions about whether to consume energy immediately or wait for a more sustainable time window.

GitHub - yellelieder/ecotime.app: Web app that shows if local electricity is sustainable right now.

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Green IT in everyday life

Sourcing and using IT sustainably, both personally and professionally

Talk about how we can create more digital sustainability on a personal level. The talk can be viewed in the recordings in the XU School of Sustainability after logging in.

Testing the sustainability of software

How do you test sustainability as a quality feature of software?

Blog post on measuring the sustainability of software.

Testing the sustainability of software – how do you test sustainability as a quality feature of software?

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W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines (Draft Community Group Report)

Web app that shows if local electricity is sustainable right now.

Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making websites and products more sustainable. As part of the WSG working group, I was involved in the creation of the first release.

Green AI

Developing and operating artificial intelligence sustainably

Talk introducing green AI. The talk can be viewed in the recordings in the XU School of Sustainability after logging in.

Sustainable AI

Developing and operating artificial intelligence in an environmentally sustainable way

Blog post on the eco friendly development and operations of AI.

Sustainable AI – developing and operating artificial intelligence in an environmentally sustainable way

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Talk

Digital sustainability in the healthcare sector

Keynote on digital sustainability in the healthcare sector at Green Health Forum

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Talk: Green Requirements Engineering

Impulse talk and moderation of a breakout session on sustainability in the development of digital products with a focus on requirements engineering.

Sustainability of programming languages

Java rather than TypeScript?

Blog post analyzing the well know study on the sustainability comparison of programming languages.

Sustainability of programming languages: Java rather than TypeScript?

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datacarbon.info

Estimate the environmental impact of data transmission.

DataCarbon.info is a frontend application designed to calculate CO2 emissions and associated environmental costs for data transmission.

GitHub - yellelieder/datacarbon.info: Calculate the environmental impact of data transmission.

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Sustainability as a requirement in requirements engineering

Specialist article on sustainability as a requirement in digital product development.

Nachhaltigkeit als Anforderung im Requirements Engineering - SQ Magazin

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Environmentally friendly networked embedded systems

State-of-the-art batteryless device applications

Research paper on energy harvesting devices and their potential for environmental sustainability.

Lessons learned: How I developed a Carbon Aware API and how to do it better

Talk on lessons learned from the development of a Carbon Aware API

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IT-Tacheles Podcast: Creating sustainable digital touchpoints

German Language Content

Guest on the IT-Tacheles podcast as an expert in digital sustainability.

#48 Digitale Touchpoints nachhaltig gestalten | IT-Tacheles | IT-Themen auf den Punkt

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Digital sustainability

On the connections between digitalization and global sustainability goals

Talk introducing digital sustainability. The talk can be viewed in the recordings in the XU School of Sustainability after logging in.

Digital Sustainability online Course

Content lead for the creation of the first comprehensive online learning program for reducing the environmental impact of IT.

IT-Tacheles Podcast: Carbon footprint - how green is Green Cloud really?

German Language Content

Guest on the IT-Tacheles podcast as an expert on the measurability and sustainability of cloud computing.

#46 Carbon Footprint – wie grün ist Green Cloud wirklich? | IT-Tacheles | IT-Themen auf den Punkt

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Sustainable Software Engineering

Development of sustainable software

Article about the development of ecologically sustainable software.

Entwicklung nachhaltiger Software

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Life cycle assessment of software

Why an electricity meter is not enough

Blog post on the sustainability assessment of software.

Life cycle assessment software – why an electricity meter is not enough

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Standards for sustainable software

When will the standard come?

Blog post on standardization of green software.

Standards for sustainable software – when will the standard come?

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Panel: Sustainability + digitalization - how can that work?

Panel on sustainability criteria for digital tools

Nachhaltigkeit + Digitalisierung – wie kann das gehen? Wir diskutieren Kriterien. Bits & Bäume

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Sustainability criteria for digital tools

Fishbowl/Workshop

Participation as a panel guest on the topic of sustainability criteria for digital tools

Sustainable software

How can I reduce the ecological footprint of my company’s systems?

Blog post with an overview of software sustainability.

Sustainable software – how can I reduce the ecological footprint of my company’s systems?

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Digital sustainability

Reconciling environmental, social and economic goals

Blog post on the environmental impact of IT.

Digital sustainability – reconciling environmental, social and economic goals

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Trade offs in the development of sustainable software

Evaluation of practices to improve the environmental sustainability of cloud applications

This paper examines the trade-offs between sustainability and quality when applications are developed for operation in the cloud. To this end, three specific practices are evaluated in terms of conflicting objectives and recommendations for developers are drawn up on how they can identify and deal with the occurrence of conflicting objectives in practice. Specifically, the explicit planning of the consumption of electricity with low CO2 intensity, the use of procedural instead of object-oriented programming and the bundling of network packages are evaluated. The results of the 12 identified impacts offer developers guidance in identifying conflicting goals and evaluating their own practices and applications.

carbon-aware-prediction-api

Machine learning based API to encounter carbon intensity into execution of energy intensive processes.

Python project that uses historical electricity market data and weather data to predict when the co2 intensity in the grid will be low. An API can be used to specify the earliest_start and latest_end times as well as the expected duration of the job and the geo coordinates of the data center. The system then returns a recommendation as to when it is most environmentally sustainable to start the job.

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Sustainable Software Engineering Literature Review

Practices to increase environmental sustainability in software engineering

In a systematic literature search across four databases, 33 papers were identified from 3464 initial search hits that suggest practices for improving energy behavior. Ultimately, 56 specific practices were identified that positively influence the energy behavior of software. All practices found were embedded in a taxonomy and, where possible, assessed in the dimensions of scope, efficiency, proven effectiveness and effort. The developed taxonomy provides an overview of the different application areas of the practices and allows readers to quickly identify practices relevant to their use case. Many of the practices found have a high degree of effectiveness and are not limited to a specific use case. The research shows that there is a clear focus on the reduction of power consumption and that the power source is hardly considered in software engineering research.