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Reducing Embodied Carbon is Important

ACM Sigarch

Chien’s argument: Embodied carbon numbers are disproportionately large Rebuttal: Large embodied carbon numbers are reported by companies who have set public goals to reach net zero emissions by 2030. Hence, significant additional investments into capacity and energy storage would be needed to match a fab’s daily load.

Energy 98
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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

AWS 52
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PostgreSQL Partitioning Made Easy Using pg_partman (TimeBased)

Percona

Vacuum efficiency will improve as data resides in smaller partitions, reducing the time required for table maintenance compared to dealing with large sets of data. Query Performance will improve when dealing with partitioned data specifically.

Storage 101