Lean Mean Green Machines - Architecting for a Greener Future
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Argues that the fastest, most practical wins are architectural and operational: remove idle resources with retention policies and FinOps, light‑switch ops so turning resources on/off is trivial, and right‑size + autoscale to raise machine utilization. Uses the Green Software Maturity Matrix and cloud tools (AWS Graviton with up to ~40% better perf, Google TPU, ElectricityMap/WhatTimeAPI, Cloud Carbon Footprint) to enable carbon‑aware scheduling and location/time shifting of workloads, claiming quick gains toward level 2–3 maturity.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 2:04Green software maturity
- 5:49Operational efficiency
- 15:55Energy market dynamics
- 19:58Carbon operations strategies
- 29:39Cloud-specific optimizations
- 36:28Carbon-aware energy management
- 41:56Product management and outlook
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