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Is moving to the cloud enough to deliver sustainability goals? Check out my views on how to build a sustainable cloud strategy and focus on creating energy-efficient cloud applications.

In this blog, I cover the following principles for building a sustainable cloud strategy - https://lnkd.in/dTCAdq5J

Unified Measurement of Carbon Emissions
Carbon-aware workloads
Leveraging serverless technology and managed services
Leverage cloud services responsibly
Data storage and lifecycle
Network, infrastructure and edge computing

Looking forward to the presentation on Sustainability and AI at IndoML.

Green AI is about how to embed energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions as part of the overall AI process while balancing the trade-offs with your model requirements.

#ai #sustainability #greenai Green Software Foundation

Is moving to the cloud enough to deliver sustainability goals? Check out my views on how to build a sustainable cloud strategy and focus on creating energy-efficient cloud applications.

In this blog, I cover the following principles for building a sustainable cloud strategy -

Unified Measurement of Carbon Emissions
Carbon-aware workloads
Leveraging serverless technology and managed services
Leverage cloud services responsibly
Data storage and lifecycle
Network, infrastructure and edge computing

#cloud #sustainabilty #esg #greentech Green Software Foundation #linkedin

What is the carbon emission of #ChatGPT ?. I gave ChatGPT (https://lnkd.in/dJSrwx8a) a try today on my favourite topic - “Technology and Sustainability” and found the response and follow-up very well structured.

It would be interesting to see how much carbon emissions were generated to train such large models and for inference/response.
I also asked this question to ChatGPT :) but got errors multiple times.

Q: Explain technology sustainability in simple terms

Technology sustainability refers to the use of technology in a way that is environmentally friendly and does not deplete natural resources. This can involve using renewable energy sources to power technology, using technology to reduce waste and pollution, and designing technology to be long-lasting and easily repairable. Essentially, the goal of technology sustainability is to ensure that our use of technology does not harm the environment or contribute to climate change.

Q: How can software professionals embrace technology sustainability?

Software professionals can embrace technology sustainability in a number of ways. Some examples include:
Educating themselves about the environmental impacts of the technology they work with and the role that software can play in addressing these impacts.
Incorporating sustainability principles into their work, such as by designing software that is energy-efficient and uses renewable resources.
Advocating for the use of sustainable technology within their organizations and the broader industry.
Supporting the development of sustainable technology solutions, such as through research and development or investment in sustainable technology startups.
Collaborating with other professionals, organizations, and communities to promote the use of sustainable technology.
Ultimately, embracing technology sustainability requires a commitment to ongoing learning, innovation, and collaboration. Software professionals can play a vital role in advancing technology sustainability by using their skills and expertise to develop solutions that are environmentally friendly and support the long-term health of our planet.

Q: How much carbon emission was generated to train and provide the above responses
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#sustainability #ai # #technology

How has technology evolved over the last two decades?

In this video, I cover how the software deployment and deployment process has evolved from monolithic to cloud-native applications.

Video Link - https://lnkd.in/eMTsxaC

Please do subscribe to my youtube channel - https://lnkd.in/dJaTc7qn for the latest trends and updates.

From devOps to GreenOps : How do you reduce the carbon impact of your #digital #cloud infrastructure and balance trade-offs across cost and latency.

One of the starting points is to leverage a cloud region that offers clean energy.

If you are running on Google Cloud, you can try the Google Cloud Region picker tool - https://lnkd.in/dTCRCiNF which helps you pick a Google Cloud region considering carbon footprint, price, and latency.

Also, if your production workloads can’t run on the cleanest region due to your requirements like data sovereignty, do consider running non-production workloads on the cleanest regions.

The region section is just one part of how you can reduce the carbon impact. Apart from moving to the cloud, the focus should be on designing and developing energy-efficient cloud applications from day one.

How do you reduce the carbon impact of your #digital #cloud infrastructure and balance trade-offs across cost and latency.

One of the starting points is to leverage a cloud region that offers clean energy.

If you are running on Google Cloud, you can try the Google Cloud Region picker tool - https://lnkd.in/dTCRCiNF which helps you pick a Google Cloud region considering carbon footprint, price, and latency.

Also, if your production workloads can’t run on the cleanest region due to your requirements like data sovereignty, do consider running non-production workloads on the cleanest regions.

The region section is just one part of how you can reduce the carbon impact. Apart from moving to the cloud, the focus should be on designing and developing energy-efficient cloud applications from day one.

How do you reduce the carbon impact of your #digital #cloud infrastructure and balance trade-offs across cost and latency.

One of the starting points is to leverage a cloud region that offers clean energy.

If you are running on Google Cloud, you can try the Google Cloud Region picker tool - https://lnkd.in/dTCRCiNF which helps you pick a Google Cloud region considering carbon footprint, price, and latency.

Also, if your production workloads can’t run on the cleanest region due to your requirements like data sovereignty, do consider running non-production workloads on the cleanest regions.

The region section is just one part of how you can reduce the carbon impact. Apart from moving to the cloud, the focus should be on designing and developing energy-efficient cloud applications from day one.

Sustainable Technology is one of the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2023. At the recent Google Cloud Next 22 event, one of the cloud technology predictions was - “3 out of 4 developers will lead with sustainability as their primary development principle”.

Carbon footprint tools are now supported by all major cloud vendors but need to provide more real-time and actionable insights. Hopefully, this gap will be closed soon.

Probably the first-ever carbon-aware computing hackathon was concluded at our recent Green Software Foundation event with over 50 projects participating.

It’s great to see the momentum building towards Technology Sustainability and making it more actionable.

To summarise from Gartner’s report, Investments in sustainable technology provide operational and financial benefits and can create growth opportunities.

Link - https://lnkd.in/d43sa_g8

Sustainable Technology is one of the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2023. At the recent Google Cloud Next 22 event, one of the cloud technology predictions was - “3 out of 4 developers will lead with sustainability as their primary development principle”.

Carbon footprint tools are now supported by all major cloud vendors but need to provide more real-time and actionable insights. Hopefully, this gap will be closed soon.

Probably the first-ever carbon-aware computing hackathon was concluded at our recent Green Software Foundation event with over 50 projects participating.

It’s great to see the momentum building towards Technology Sustainability and making it more actionable.

To summarise from Gartner’s report, Investments in sustainable technology provide operational and financial benefits and can create growth opportunities.

Link - https://lnkd.in/d43sa_g8

For a limited time, the first 1000 users get my new course “Getting started with cloud computing and Google Cloud” for free. Click this URL - https://lnkd.in/dKzmCmR5 to avail of the offer.

This course is targeted at students and software practitioners who are looking to build a career in cloud computing, learn the “why” and “how” part of getting things done to build cloud applications, and be industry ready.

Apart from cloud computing, the course also teaches you dual skills in creating multi-cloud applications - basically building applications in a way that can be deployed to any cloud provider, like Google Cloud, Azure or AWS. Secondly, the course teaches you practical ways of getting things done, that would help you in your cloud journey.

Happy learning !! Please do share with your network.

Happy to share that my new course - Getting started with cloud computing and Google Cloud is now live on Udemy.

This course is targeted for students and software practitioners who are looking to build a career in cloud computing, learn the “why” and “how” part of getting things done to build cloud applications, and be industry ready.

Apart from cloud computing, the course also teaches you dual skills on how to create multi-cloud applications - basically build applications in a way that can be deployed to any cloud provider, like Google Cloud, Azure or AWS. Secondly, the course teaches you practical ways of getting things done, that would help you in your cloud journey.

For the next few days, all users get the course for free. Simply click this URL - https://lnkd.in/dKzmCmR5 to avail of the offer.

You can also buy this digital book at Amazon - https://amzn.to/3TtbLOh

Happy learning !! Please do share with your network.

One of the important aspects of Green Software Foundation - Software Carbon Intensity Specification is about reduction and not carbon offsets. You can reduce the carbon emission for your application by 3 key strategies - developing energy efficient application, using efficient/less hardware for some amount of computing or being carbon-aware by picking the clean region and time to run your workloads. Not all workloads need to run at the same time.

Glad to contribute towards the 1.0 release. Looking forward to the event today. Register for Decarbonize Software event: https://lnkd.in/gQxcM3bV

Multi-cloud development strategy

One of the strategic decisions that enterprises need to make is how they can be cloud-agnostic due to various drivers that include cost model, customer affinity towards a particular cloud vendor, availability of cloud regions, disaster recovery strategy, or compliance and regulations.

Going forward, multi-cloud support would be a key strategic decision being adopted by all enterprises.

Even though, multi-cloud support may not be a current priority for your enterprises, enterprises should adopt cloud-native applications and principles, so it can help transition to a multi-cloud environment seamlessly based on future requirements. In this way, enterprises can be multicloud-ready.

Sharing my learning and experiences in building multi-cloud ready applications.

https://lnkd.in/d52Q3X-x

Happy to share my latest talk on technology sustainability and Green Software is now available.

In my view, as software practitioners, we all have a collective responsibility to adopt green software development, build energy-efficient applications, and play our part towards a greener environment.

You can watch the full content @ https://lnkd.in/dyJc7xHn

#greensoftware # #sustainability #sustainabilitytech #IndiaPostingChallenge #esg Green Software Foundation

t’s good to see Amazon Neptune moved to serverless, especially for graph databases where compute and memory resources provisioning would now be handled by AWS cloud.

Having worked on Amazon Neptune for user profiling and recommendations, one of the challenges was around cost and provisioning and going serverless should address it.

In future, you will have serverless options for all the major products and services. Serverless is not only great for effective resource utilisation, and cost benefits but also reduces the carbon footprint of your application.

https://lnkd.in/d5Hi-mEs

It’s good to see Amazon Neptune moved to serverless, especially for graph databases where compute and memory resources provisioning would now be handled by AWS cloud.

Having worked on Amazon Neptune for user profiling and recommendations, one of the challenges was around cost and provisioning and going serverless should address it.

In future, you will have serverless options for all the major products and services. Serverless is not only great for effective resource utilisation, and cost benefits but also reduces the carbon footprint of your application.

https://lnkd.in/d5Hi-mEs

One of the strategic decisions that enterprises need to make is how they can be cloud-agnostic due to various drivers that include cost model, customer affinity towards a particular cloud vendor, availability of cloud regions, disaster recovery strategy, or compliance and regulations.

Going forward, multi-cloud support would be a key strategic decision being adopted by all enterprises.

Even though, multi-cloud support may not be a current priority for your enterprises, enterprises should adopt cloud-native applications and principles, so it can help transition to a multi-cloud environment seamlessly based on future requirements. In this way, enterprises can be multicloud-ready.

Sharing my learning and experiences in building multi-cloud ready applications.

https://lnkd.in/d52Q3X-x

One of the strategic decisions that enterprises need to make is how they can be cloud-agnostic due to various drivers that include cost model, customer affinity towards a particular cloud vendor, availability of cloud regions, disaster recovery strategy, or compliance and regulations.

Going forward, multi-cloud support would be a key strategic decision being adopted by all enterprises.

Even though, multi-cloud support may not be a current priority for your enterprises, enterprises should adopt cloud-native applications and principles, so it can help transition to a multi-cloud environment seamlessly based on future requirements. In this way, enterprises can be multicloud-ready.

Sharing my learning and experiences in building multi-cloud ready applications.

Great to hear a big focus towards #data, #web3 and #sustainability at  #GoogleCloudNext

1. Automated Catalog + BigQuery + Unstructured Data + Spark Integration
2. Migrate to Alloy DB
3. Crypto with CoinBase.
4. GA of Carbon Footprint Calculator + Active Assist

Also liked the sustainability prediction as part of the top 10 Cloud Technology Predictions for 2025

• “3 out of 4 developers will lead with sustainability as their primary development principle.

#sustainabilty #data #technology #coinbase #googlecloud #googlecloudprediction Green Software Foundation