Bridging Product and Engineering for a Greener Future: Embedding Sustainability into Software Teams
summary
Company embeds sustainability by measuring cloud usage with Cloud Carbon Footprint and other tools (Kepler, Greenframe, CodeCarbon, AI Impact Tracker), finds a hidden emissions spike caused by misconfigured autoscaling, and reduces dev-environment emissions and cost by 70% after right‑sizing and autoscale fixes. Team creates a green IT backlog and KPIs (zombie servers, page weight, response time) but learns grassroots change is slow and needs management buy‑in plus finer observability per team.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 3:20Raising sustainability awareness
- 10:09Measuring carbon emissions in software
- 14:26Challenges with product management
- 18:02AI’s hidden environmental cost
- 21:56Lessons learned and future steps
- 23:39Q&A: Costs vs emissions and AI impact
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