Adrian Cockcroft

JULY 18, 2023

Amazon 2022 Sustainability Report — 19 AWS Regions are 100% renewable Amazon released their 2022 sustainability report which includes an updated list of renewable AWS regions. For 2021 there were 12 AWS regions that were “over 95% renewable”. The Power Usage Efficiency of datacenters (how much energy is used for cooling etc.)

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

McKinsey summarizes the importance of this focus: “Every company uses energy and resources; every company affects and is affected by the environment.” Some interesting facts: Moving a workload to the cloud can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 96%. Cloud computing has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I’m helping manage AWS contributions to the project, as we build an open source data lake and analysis service that can be used to model climate related asset risks for investors. AWS is supporting customers who are working to change the way they operate and build more sustainable products. Orange mid-day sky at San Gregorio Beach?—?smoky

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum has a uniquely designed data pipeline that can efficiently stream data from the disk to the CPU, without relying on the data fitting into RAM memory, as explained in their Greenplum Next Generation Big Data Platform: Top 5 reasons article. Query Optimization. Let’s walk through the top use cases for Greenplum: Analytics.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Let’s start by assuming that you have figured out a way to estimate the energy consumption and carbon footprint for a workload that is sensitive enough to register changes in the way you run the workload. This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. Cloud analytics are everywhere. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

However, it’s not energy-efficient to render the article for each and every request. It may sound weird at first that you need a web server to achieve efficient static rendering. Website personalization is a hot topic, sadly adversarial to performance and energy consumption. With a server and all! middlewares.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. The good news is that, as developers, we can do an awful lot about it. Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web.

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