How to Build and Leverage APIs Sustainably to Reduce Digital Waste.
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Claims that IT will consume 21% of global energy by 2030 and that the internet already accounts for about 3.7% of global carbon frame a set of concrete actions: split heavy endpoints into simple vs detailed APIs or use GraphQL/gRPC to avoid sending 90% unused fields; prefer push over frequent polling; deploy with containers and Kubernetes (example: Nordstrom: 4% → 40% CPU utilization); use API gateways, caching, rate limits, service mesh and observability; choose greener cloud regions and embed services like Patch and Pachama for offsets and emissions data.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:13How We Can Build and Leverage Apis To Sustainably Reduce Digital Waste
- 1:57How Much Is Your Digital Transformation Costing Future Generations
- 7:20Global Web Traffic in 2021
- 8:22Design and Planning Apis
- 12:56Api Management
- 19:17Change Take Action
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