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Reducing Embodied Carbon is Important

ACM Sigarch

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Andrew Chien rightfully raises awareness of the challenges of reducing operational carbon.

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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 All the talks and videos I could find…

Adrian Cockcroft

The new information from October 2022 states: To achieve our goal of powering our operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025 — five years ahead of our original 2030 target — Amazon contracts for renewable power from utility scale wind and solar projects that add clean energy to the grid. SUS209 — there was no talk with this code.

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Cloud cost optimization: Dynatrace helps organizations manage cloud cost

Dynatrace

Architecture. To discover why EBS usage was growing in relation to the Dynatrace architecture, the team used Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) and instrumentation notebooks to determine what processes were using the resources. Utilization. The Dynatrace platform tracks workload and dependencies among resources.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

Put another way, the performance gap between what devices the wealthy carry and what budget shoppers carry grew more this year (252 points) than the year-over-year gains from process and architecture at the volume price point (174 points). For instance, GSMA predicts that 5G will only comprise half of connections by 2030.