Responsible computing: how about a survey of measurement tools?
summary
Presents concrete measurement options for estimating digital carbon and their limits: inventory-based tools (echodiag/lescodiag), cloud-focused tools (Cloud Carbon Footprint and vendor dashboards), front-end audits (ecoIndex, Green IT Analysis, Castor) and scripted phone tests (GreenSpector), plus container/runtime tooling (Scafandre). Describes an experiment finding about 20% of VMs idle and a bot that stops unused VMs, and warns that results are inconsistent due to lack of standardized methodology and simplified life-cycle analyses can sometimes favor the cloud.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:06Defining responsible computing
- 10:40Measuring organization and hardware
- 14:33Code and front-end tools
- 27:11Holistic solutions and Green Code
- 31:50Measuring back-end and hosting
- 38:52Q&A
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