How Sustainable APIs Can Change the World
summary
Shows that APIs can cut CO2 by three concrete levers — energy efficiency, carbon awareness, hardware efficiency — and gives implementable tactics: host in low-carbon regions, co-locate microservices, use caching and MQTT, right-size compute, destroy non-prod, batch work and prefer event-driven patterns. Introduces a Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) equation (E×I + M scaled by R) and points to third-party services like Climatiq API to estimate emissions per region, plus an eco mode header pattern to let callers trade latency for lower carbon.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50Trends Since 1971
- 5:302021 Web Traffic Analysis
- 7:16Making APIs Eco-Friendly
- 10:37Implementing Eco Mode in APIs
- 12:22Understanding Software Carbon Intensity
- 13:06Carbon Intensity Score Equation
- 13:55Third-Party APIs for Carbon Footprint
- 14:35Learning Resources on Carbon Footprint
- 14:46Urgency of Environmental Action
- 15:08Conclusion
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