Sustainable IT and API Performance - How to Bring Them Together.
summary
Claims that AI drives a 160% increase in data center power demand and that gen‑AI requests use about a 10× more energy than a Google search set the context. A benchmark of ~800 API providers running the same spec shows mean 0.25s response, fastest 0.05s, slowest 1.4s, proving implementation choices matter. Actionable levers include payload size, caching, paging, rate limits, performance testing and monitoring, and using tools like AWS and Google Cloud carbon calculators or Cloud Carbon Footprint to measure and cut API-related emissions.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Sustainable IT and API performance
- 1:05AI growth and power demand
- 4:43Energy use: API vs AI
- 6:31API performance variations
- 8:45Key API performance elements
- 12:23Network impact on APIs
- 14:10API architecture considerations
- 16:22Scalability challenges
- 17:49Performance requirements
- 18:52Monitoring API performance
- 19:36Carbon footprint of APIs
- 21:51Sustainable API solutions
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