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Don’t follow the sun: Scheduling compute workloads to chase green energy can be counter-productive

Adrian Cockcroft

Sunset in Morocco — photo taken by Adrian We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive.

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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.” Thresholds influencing these calculations are derived from Google Compute Engine recommendations, although you have full configuration control to adjust these thresholds to your needs.

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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? This process enables you to continuously evaluate software against predefined quality criteria and service level objectives (SLOs) in pre-production environments.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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

Dynatrace

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. Dynatrace customer Duke Energy utilizes synthetic on-demand execution capability. “We

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What is FinOps? How to keep cloud spend in check

Dynatrace

Today, many global industries implement FinOps, including telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and energy conservation, as well as most Fortune 50 companies. Public, private, and hybrid cloud computing platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud provide access, development, and management of cloud applications and services.

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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia.

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