Sustainability APIs and making APIs sustainable
summary
Recommend hosting on a low‑carbon cloud (Google Cloud advertises 100% matched electricity) and design services to scale to zero when idle; aim to move heavy batch jobs to low grid‑intensity windows using APIs like ElectricityMap, co2signal or WhatTime. Note the internet causes about 3.7% of global emissions and could roughly double by 2025, with Akamai carrying ~20% of traffic, so reduce payloads via sparse fieldsets, enable proper HTTP caching and avoid oversized compound responses to cut energy and latency.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:10Welcome
- 2:00Hosting your APIs
- 3:28Scaling to zero
- 7:13Leverage green APIs
- 11:50Design sustainable APIs
- 12:00Sparse field sets
- 14:40Caching
- 17:22Data is always stale
- 18:57Dont make giant payloads
- 21:43Questions
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