The Principles of Green Software - How Green is Your Application
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Defines green software as energy efficiency, hardware efficiency, and carbon awareness and gives a concrete metric: the Green Software Carbon Intensity spec — energy consumed × location‑based grid intensity plus embodied carbon, divided by a functional unit R (per API call, per user, etc.). Cites working products: Xbox carbon‑aware downloads, Windows 11 carbon‑aware updates, iPhone clean charging. Recommends measuring-change-measuring, points to the O’Reilly book Building Green Software and the Linux Foundation’s free Green Software Practitioner course.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:05Who am I
- 1:59Agenda
- 2:13What makes software green
- 2:57Carbon efficiency
- 3:47Hardware efficiency
- 4:39Carbon aware
- 5:45Measuring your footprint
- 6:40Carbon intensity specifications
- 8:00Climate commitments
- 10:03Free course
- 10:22Summary
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