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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., energy consumption). Energy Consumption. It accounted for 55.18% of the total energy budget of the phone! of the energy used by the 5G only baseline.

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Exploring Multifaceted Growth of Energy Tech in Houston

Simform

Houston, best known for its oil and gas industry, has recently observed a growth in energy tech. It’s become a breeding ground for many tech startups working to rediscover the energy industry with technology.

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Boosted race trees for low energy classification

The Morning Paper

Boosted race trees for low energy classification Tzimpragos et al., We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. The quest for energy-efficient machine learning systems looks like it may take us to some very interesting places indeed!

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Break tasks you procrastinate into smaller, low-energy ones

Addy Osmani

Tip: Break tasks you procrastinate into smaller, low-energy ones. It helps

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Managing Energy, Prioritizing Health: The Tasktop Recharge Days Initiative

Tasktop

The company is led by people who recognize that happier and healthier employees bring more enthusiasm and energy to their work and produce better results. Managing our energy through this is key, and the best way to do that on long treks is with some good rest stops.

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Ecosystems and the Energy Source of Last Resort

The Agile Manager

One thing an ecosystem needs to survive is a constant supply of energy. The sun provides an uninterrupted supply of energy to the Earth. It can also be stored: liquefied dinosaurs are effectively stored energy that originated with the sun. Energy from the sun can be concentrated in many other forms, and accessible to parts of the planet when they're directly exposed to it. In commercial ecosystems, capital is energy.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

The keynotes didn’t feature anything new on carbon, just re-iterated the existing path to 100% green energy by 2025. It basically says that near-as-dammit all the regions in the EU and US are already being supplied by renewable energy.

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Thinking About Power Usage and Websites

CSS - Tricks

Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites. He was wondering about the specifics of web tech, like… If you do this in HTML it will consume 3× energy but if you do it in JavaScript it will consume 10 ×. Energy intensity of web data 3.

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From observability to sustainability: Reduce your IT carbon footprint with Dynatrace Carbon Impact

Dynatrace

McKinsey summarizes the importance of this focus: “Every company uses energy and resources; every company affects and is affected by the environment.” The first shows accumulated carbon footprint and energy consumption over time.

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Top 30 Tech Companies in Houston Defining the City’s 2022 Tech Scene

Simform

In addition to its top energy and healthcare industry offerings, Houston has also been technologically thriving for the last few years. This article features top tech companies in Houston that have made it a hub of innovation, technology, and digital transformation.

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Refueling a Personal Value Stream During Ramadan

Tasktop

This journey requires four key components: time, energy, grit, and flow. Energy is the necessary commodity. In this blog, I will focus on energy, or what is referred to as Nour. Tasktop’s Mission : We are driving toward an inclusive company culture.

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Crowding Out

The Agile Manager

Energy inflation: energy prices collapsed before the pandemic, only for supply to contract as energy consumption declined with the pandemic. Tech has had a pretty easy ride for the last twenty years. It only took a couple of years for tech to recover from the 2001 dot-com crash.

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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

Before you invest a lot of time and energy into a particular cloud, it’s important to understand the overall performance characteristics of MongoDB on that cloud.

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Tech Transforms podcast: Security, privacy, and African American history – February 2022

Dynatrace

In February 2022, we spoke with these government technology influencers: Pete Tseronis – CEO of Dots and Bridges, former CTO of the US Department of Energy and US Department of Education. Dynatrace news.

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

The “Other” category, at more than 22% of the total, includes respondents from education (3%, combining K12 and higher education), insurance (3%), energy and utilities (2%), media/entertainment (2%), non-profit (2%), consumer products (1%) and other verticals.

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Building a Media Understanding Platform for ML Innovations

The Netflix TechBlog

We build creator tooling to enable these colleagues to focus their time and energy on creativity. Unfortunately, much of their energy goes into labor-intensive pre-work.

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The New New New Normal

The Agile Manager

Both Ukraine and Russia are mass exporters of raw materials such as agricultural products and energy. The prosperity of many of those countries is now under threat as war forces a re-sourcing of food and energy suppliers and threatens deprioritization of social policies.

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Responsible, Conditional Loading

CSS - Tricks

Also the same energy: Umar Hansa’s recent blog post JavaScript: Conditional JavaScript, only download when it is appropriate to do so.

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Four observability trends IT leaders should have on the radar in 2023

Dynatrace

Soaring energy costs and rising inflation have created strong macroeconomic headwinds that force organizations to prioritize efficiency and cost reduction. Just as the world began to emerge from the immediate effects of an unprecedented global healthcare crisis, it faced yet another emergency.

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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

As per open source products, I guess you summarized it best saying “ what you pay will be several orders of magnitude less than the time it would take you to do it” So evaluating a tool, it is up to you to decide if you want to pay for functionality you need or you want to invest your time and energy in implementing it. Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths.

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Dynatrace announces major partnership with Girls in Tech Australia

Dynatrace

The partnership came about after Dynatrace’s recent participation in the Girls in Tech Australia’s Hacking for Humanity, a virtual hack-a-thon, which aimed to contribute to solving climate issues to help pave a path to a better world across energy, conservation, and waste. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

Dynatrace

Dynatrace customer Duke Energy utilizes synthetic on-demand execution capability. “We We don’t have to wait 5, 15, or even 60 minutes” states Travis Anderson, Application Performance Management at Duke Energy. Dynatrace news.

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Safari 16.4 Is An Admission

Alex Russell

It takes time to board up the windows before a storm, and if competition is truly coming, this burst of energy looks like a belated attempt to batten the hatches for competition. The phrase "stop-energy" is often misused, but the dampening effect of Apple on the progress of Web Components after 2015-2016's burst of V1 design energy was palpable. And yet, Apple continued to apply stop-energy.

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Fast Websites Are Good for the World

MachMetrics

Yup – as if there weren’t a million other reasons why having an optimized site is important, you can now take pride in knowing that a fast website: saves energy, reduces economic disparity, increases happiness, and – in the most recent news – can prevent hate. Fast Websites Save Energy. The quicker your page spends in each of these phases, the less energy it uses. And we all know less energy usage is a good thing.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world. Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally.

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Artificial intelligence: The ultimate technology for game-changers – Max Tegmark at Perform 2022

Dynatrace

And we have extracted only a minute fraction of the energy that is theoretically possible from energy sources. Dynatrace news. Think big. Really big. Cosmically big.”

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Web Development Trends in 2023

KeyCDN

Providing a dark mode option can help to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.Another use of dark mode standardization is energy savings. Smart developers are always looking ahead for ways to adapt to the ever-changing world of web development.

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Max Tegmark on artificial intelligence: The ultimate technology for game-changers

Dynatrace

And we have extracted only a minute fraction of the energy that is theoretically possible from energy sources. Dynatrace news. Think big. Really big. Cosmically big.”

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

The advanced analytics provided by Greenplum is being used across many verticals, including finance, manufacturing, automotive, government, energy, education, retail, and so on, to address a wide variety of problems.

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A case for lease-based, utilitarian resource management on mobile devices

The Morning Paper

I’ve chosen another energy-related paper to end the week, addressing a problem many people can relate to: apps that drain your battery. How you tell whether or not an app is being a wise steward of a resource is an interesting question we’ll get into… A severe type of defect developers frequently introduce in their apps is energy bugs that drain battery abnormally fast. Wasted energy. A case for lease-based, utilitarian resource management on mobile devices Hu et al.,

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Slower Memory Zeroing Through Parallelism

Randon ASCII

As somebody wise once said , spin locks waste energy and CPU power and should be avoided. While investigating some performance mysteries in Chrome I discovered that Microsoft had parallelized how they zero memory, and in some cases this was making it a lot slower.

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Tasktop’s Recharge Day Fills Everyone’s Tanks

Tasktop

In addition to this time to “fill our tanks”, Tasktop lives it’s value of caring for each other’s growth and happiness with a generous annual fitness benefit, paid volunteer time, parental leave top-up and other perks that help Tasktopians manage energy and prioritize health. .

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Closer to AGI?

O'Reilly

Gigawatt-hours : roughly 1/1000th the energy it takes to run the Large Hadron Collider for a year. And granted, a lot can be done to optimize training (and DeepMind has done a lot of work on models that require less energy).

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Celebrating game-changing partnerships with the Dynatrace Amplify 2022 Partner Awards

Dynatrace

Mediro has the drive, passion, and energy needed to bring the best talent to the industry, and that’s why we’ve awarded them with our RFO Training and Certification Award for EMEA. Dynatrace news.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

One of the important criteria in launching this AWS Region is the opportunity to power it with renewable energy. We chose Bahrain in part due to the country's focus on executing renewable energy goals and its readiness to construct a new solar power facility to meet our power needs. I'm pleased to announce that the Bahrain Energy and Water Authority (EWA) will construct a solar farm that will supply renewable energy to power this infrastructure Region.

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Use A Raspberry Pi And A CPU Miner To Mine Altcoins

The Polyglot Developer

These microcomputers use very little energy and have decent processors and memory, making them great for a diverse set of projects. I’m a big fan, and hoarder, of Raspberry Pi devices.

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Top 8 Mobile Apps That Promote Sustainability

Tech News Gather

WhenToPlugIn is an app that might help you save money on your energy costs. It will tell users when to use energy-intensive equipment like washers and dryers at the ‘greenest’ times of the day. Ever thought about how much CO2 gas emissions you release every day?

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Scriptless Test automation solution: How to use it to improve your testing ROI?

Testsigma

One wrong step in this direction and be assured to lose precious time and energy. Since the time, money, and energy outweigh the immediate returns. Decreasing the Investments: This means the time, cost, energy that is put into the automation testing.

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Introducing Netflix Timed Text Authoring Lineage

The Netflix TechBlog

In a nutshell, TTAL has been designed to simplify script authoring, so the creative energy is spent on the art of dubbing and subtitling rather than managing adapted and recorded script delivery.

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The Ethics of Web Performance

Tim Kadlec

Cennydd also makes the case that performance also has an impact on energy consumption: In 2016, video, tracking scripts and sharing buttons caused the average website to swell to the same size as the original version of Doom. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. Based on the 5 kWh energy consumption estimate, we’re looking at spending 17.6

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Why Don't You Use.

Brendan Gregg

Those vested in the technology will find it easy to attack your response – and have more time, energy, and interest in doing so – which can make your company look worse. Working for a famous tech company, I get asked a lot "Why don't you use technology X?" X may be an application, programming language, operating system, hypervisor, processor, or tool. It may be because: - It performs poorly. - It is too expensive. - It is not open source. - It lacks features. -

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Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud

Percona

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.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS China (Ningxia) Region

All Things Distributed

Thousands of customers in China are already using AWS services operated by Sinnet, to innovate in diverse areas such as energy, education, manufacturing, home security, mobile and internet platforms, CRM solutions, and the dairy industry, among others. Today, I am happy to announce the general availability of AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Technology Co. NWCD). This is our 17th Region globally, and the second in China.

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