Software Development and Sustainability with Brendan Kamp

Beyond Coding

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-kamp-757e

With Google as My Neighbor, Will There Still Be Water? -

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/protests-against-data-centers/

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OUTLINE
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:28 - What is sustainable tech?
00:02:29 - Sustainability in programming languages
00:05:13 - Optimizing a few hot paths
00:07:26 - Is it worth optimizing algorithms?
00:10:50 - Optimizing for readability
00:13:26 - The Zen of Python
00:15:58 - Underutilized infrastructure
00:17:54 - Reducing infra by 40-50%
00:19:59 - Cloud providers are damaging the planet
00:22:44 - Offsetting emissions and green washing
00:26:21 - Distributed datacenters in hotels and swimming pools
00:30:07 - A datacenter that has more rights than citizens
00:31:55 - Who is at fault
00:33:34 - Microsoft's emissions growing since AI boom
00:34:45 - Fit for 55
00:35:12 - What is greenwashing?
00:37:39 - You have to adhere to sustainability practises
00:39:13 - Emission scopes
00:41:50 - Saving costs on cloud resources
00:45:06 - Why overspend happens
00:48:20 - People problems
00:51:12 - The power to implement
00:53:45 - Everlearning

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