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Calculating Cloud VM CPU Carbon Emissions

Calculating Cloud VM CPU Carbon Emissions

Like many others, we at re:cinq have been attempting to measure energy consumption of virtualized …

| Feb 28, 2024
Green Data Centres: Data at Scale, Impact at Zero?

Green Data Centres: Data at Scale, Impact at Zero?

As technology scales, data centres quietly contribute more and more to the climate crisis.

| Feb 20, 2024
Bridging The Gap - Brigning Sustainability to SRE

Bridging The Gap - Brigning Sustainability to SRE

Change is inevitable. It requires that your organisation’s codebase is sustainable and you are able …

| Jan 29, 2024
Follow the Sun: Greening the IT Landscape, One Sunrise at a Time

Follow the Sun: Greening the IT Landscape, One Sunrise at a Time

“Follow the Sun” sounds like ambiguous guidance from Yoda. It is also:

| Jan 29, 2024
No More Greenwashing? 4 Things to Consider If You Work with Software.

No More Greenwashing? 4 Things to Consider If You Work with Software.

What a week for planet Earth. (And I’m sure it’s been a helluva week for planet Mars too but that’s …

| Jan 19, 2024
Energy Proportionality and the Promise of Greener Systems

Energy Proportionality and the Promise of Greener Systems

The cloud is just someone else’s computer. While a funny metaphor and thought-provoking …

| Jan 11, 2024
A Christmas Tree Carbon Story

A Christmas Tree Carbon Story

My partner LOVES Christmas time. The lights, the markets, finding the biggest tree (then carrying …

| Dec 19, 2023
Beyond the Code: Carbon Impact of Large Language Models (LLMs)

Beyond the Code: Carbon Impact of Large Language Models (LLMs)

I’m sure you’ve heard of ChatGPT, Copilot, or any of the other many (many, many, many) AI tools …

| Dec 18, 2023
`Perf`-icient Measuring of Laptop Energy Consumption and CO2e

`Perf`-icient Measuring of Laptop Energy Consumption and CO2e

Recently I attended the SDIA Green Coding Summit in Berlin. From the engaging panels to the …

| Dec 5, 2023
Green Metrics: Enhancing Code Efficiency with Sorting Algorithms

Green Metrics: Enhancing Code Efficiency with Sorting Algorithms

Measuring the energy consumption of your software is like playing jenga

| Nov 24, 2023
Embodied Carbon in IT: Impact and Management Strategies

Embodied Carbon in IT: Impact and Management Strategies

This week, I found myself thinking about the gaps in sustainable software development.

| Nov 23, 2023
Node Sizing: Key to Energy-Efficient Computing

Node Sizing: Key to Energy-Efficient Computing

There are constant arguments, opinions, and memes about how to make more sustainable decisions.

| Nov 13, 2023
Optimizing Code Efficiency: Sustainability & Big O Notation

Optimizing Code Efficiency: Sustainability & Big O Notation

During my time at university, I wrestled with the concept of Big O notation, never quite grasping …

| Oct 19, 2023