Green IT: Reducing the Environmental Footprint of IT and APIs
We all know that IT consumes quite a bit of energy and other resources. But how much, and what can we do to manage this better? Here's a gentle introduction with Phil Sturgeon who walks us through the general concepts and adds some API-specific flavor.
Looking at the general concepts, there are three large categories to look at which are quite distinct, but all have a large impact and a lot of potential to improve things:
- Software Efficiency: Write and operate your software so that it avoids wasteful resource usage. This specifically includes software components that are complex and can be resource-intensive, such as databases and most recently of course this specifically includes vector databases.
- Hardware Efficiency: Using hardware efficiently means to get as close to an optimal workload allocation as possible, meaning that you're neither over-provisioning nor overloading servers. Hardware is resource-intensive to produce so utilizing it well reduces the overall footprint.
- Carbon Awareness: Energy comes with different footprints depending on when and where it is consumed. Understanding these differences and using them to better plan workload allocation can significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the same amount of energy being consumed.
In order to get started we mention a specific free course that should be mandatory for every professional in the general IT sector. If you haven't done so already, please check it out and consider doing it:
Green Software Foundation: Green Software for Practitioners -
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