apidays Paris 2020
2020-12-08..2020-12-10
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who it's for
sustainability engineers, cloud engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, software developers, data engineers, product managers
topics
ICT lifecycle assessment; GreenOps carbon accounting; real-time electricity carbon intensity; measuring software energy consumption; serverless data platform design; full-stack energy test bench; Scaphandre runtime metrics; AWS EC2 carbon emissions dataset; Google Cloud carbon footprint apportionment; device refurbishment and circularity; sustainable APIs; sustainable cloud infrastructure deployment
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Our Global IT System, climate destroyer? | Jean-Marc Jancovici | 01h 09m |
Claims that IT saves energy are false: the global digital system is a greenhouse‑gas enabler, not a reducer. The full footprint — manufacturing plus… | ||
| Digital Sustainable Challenge Initiative Opening Keynote | Maxime Efoui | 28m |
Claims that digital tech already causes 4% of global GHG in 2019, can hit 7–8% by 2025 under business as usual, and currently grows at 8% a year versus 2–3%… | ||
| Deploy digital sobriety: guiding toward a sustainable information system | Céline Lescop | 01h 11m |
Argues that digital systems already eat a large share of the carbon budget and that the right response is measure scope 1/2/3 including device manufacturing… | ||
| Aligning our organizations to planetary boundaries | Diego Landivar | 25m |
Argues that current sustainability/transition assumptions fail: energy mixes coexist, rebound effects erase efficiency gains, and economists’ offsetting of… | ||
| Democratising 24/7 electricity carbon accounting | Olivier Corradi | 22m |
Demonstrates a working platform that maps real‑time electricity carbon intensity worldwide, offers 24‑hour forecasts and a commercial API used by Google to… | ||
| Planned Obsolescence A fireside chat | Quentin Le Brouster | 27m |
Back Market rebuilds and resells refurbished devices at scale, buying back phones, replacing batteries and broken parts, and polishing cosmetics so older… | ||
| Reconcile the European Data Strategy with Carbon Neutrality Objectives | Stefano Nativi | 27m |
European policy aligns the Data Strategy with the Green Deal by treating data, computing and energy as a single nexus and setting carbon neutrality by 2050 as… | ||
| Green Data is the new Big Data | Arnaud Col | 24m |
Argues that designing data platforms as serverless and transient systems cuts energy and cost while still meeting user needs, showing an end-to-end AWS pattern… | ||
| Introduction to sustainable IT: challenges and key people for change | Emmanuel Laroche | 26m |
Overview of concrete levers: makes the case with life cycle assessment showing manufacturing toxicity and resource depletion from gallium/indium and battery… | ||
| How to measure ICT carbon footprint? A quick guide to GreenOps toolkit | Nicolas Drouet, Eric Fourboul | 25m |
Practical how to measure ICT carbon footprint with concrete tools and numbers not slogans The GreenOps approach aggregates top down cloud provider estimates… | ||
| Full-stack energy consumption test bench for developers | Florian Ferbach, Alan Poulain, Thiery Michel | 23m |
Argos is a proof‑of‑concept full‑stack test bench that runs apps in containers, drives realistic user scenarios with Cypress, collects Docker stats (CPU… | ||
| How to (easily) evaluate the energy consumption of your software ? | Maria Jose Presso, Lionel Durand | 22m |
A test bench runs the voice‑as‑a‑service platform in Docker, measures power with a physical meter and then with PowerAPI plus Grafana, and drives load via Rest… | ||
| Sustainability: A designer's approach | Claudia Del Prado | 22m |
An agency methodology called Impact by Design embeds environmental and social metrics into product strategy and execution using two tools: the Value Wheel for… | ||
| Sustainable cloud infrastructure: from ideation to deployment | Arnaud Kalck, Alban Boitier | 36m |
Claims a design-to-decommission framework that treats sobriety as a third non-negotiable goal alongside performance and security, backed by concrete controls… | ||
| Sopra Steria | Jérémy Sintes, Pauline Villatte | 23m |
Sopra Steria revisits Euromaster’s appointment app and applies EcoIndex and Ecometer plus a tailored life‑cycle analysis to measure impact, separates front and… | ||
| Sustainability APIs and making APIs sustainable | Phil Sturgeon | 24m |
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… | ||
| Can tech kill or save the planet? | Isabelle Albert | 27m |
Tech causes tangible harms and offers concrete fixes: digital already emits 3.8%–5% of global GHGs, data centers consume ≈1% of global electricity, and online… | ||
| Evaluating the environmental footprint of an open-source software | Petteri Kivimaki | 23m |
Open-source X-Road’s environmental footprint is quantified with a three-phase study done with Gophor and the Stockholm Environment Institute, using Estonian… | ||
| How Meetic is Developing its Sustainability Strategy | Julien Chouteau | 21m |
Meetic commits to 10% reduction per year in carbon emissions and targets the biggest source: the end-user device footprint by measuring average session… | ||
| Google Cloud Carbon Footprint: Energy-based apportionment [...] | Vincent Poncet | 25m |
Google Cloud ships a Carbon Footprint tool that apportions shared data‑center energy and grid carbon intensity to individual cloud resources so customers see… | ||
| Why sustainability makes sense for tech | Albane Bruyas | 26m |
Global internet systems emit ~900 million tonnes CO2 annually and could double by 2025; data centers use 1–2% of world electricity while traffic has tripled… | ||
| Reference Guide for sustainable IT, What’s in & How to ? | Denis Didier | 23m |
A publicly released reference guide called HB 491 handbook catalogs 491 criteria for sustainable IT, produced by over 100 contributors and published October… | ||
| Measuring environmental impact reductions: [...] | Gregory Pelletier | 25m |
A React site is migrated to Svelte and measured with Lighthouse and a Green IT eco-index, using a local production-optimized demo called Hondura bovine dating… | ||
| Building an AWS EC2 Carbon Emissions Dataset | Benjamin Davy | 25m |
Bottom-up EC2 carbon dataset estimates actual power and manufacture emissions: RAPL counters accessed via turbostat on Intel bare metal while load is driven… | ||
| Scaphander hands on - demo & new features | Benoit Petit | 25m |
Lightweight open source Rust agent that measures server wall power and attributes consumption down to processes and Kubernetes pods, deployed as a DaemonSet on… | ||
| Boavitza, year 2 | Laurent Eskenazi | 28m |
Year two reports a working open‑source lifecycle inventory and a community‑grown database (branded databar 10.1) plus a documented multi‑criteria LCA… | ||
| Evaluate and improve the footprint of digital services | Yves Dolo | 22m |
Claims a repeatable method to turn web metrics into environmental impact numbers by converting requests → kJ and CO2 equivalents, combining hosting… | ||
| Sustainable IT at Allianz | Tanguy Le Gall, Nathalie Beaufils, Fabien Brunet | 25m |
Allianz presents how it approaches sustainable IT by combining corporate responsibility practices with technical development and integration. The talk covers… | ||
| Groupe Rocher: how we made our CRM data platform greener? | Gwenola Cadic, Nathalie Husson, Arnaud Col | 25m |
Builds a layered CRM data platform that reduces duplication and idle compute by enforcing serverless GCP stack (Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, Cloud Composer… | ||
| Building a sustainable digital bank | Sebastien Monchamps | 26m |
Public bank shifts to measurable tech changes: delivers an ecological transition dashboard in December 2021 and reports it helped process 700,000 loans / €140B… | ||
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