#57 Greening Intelligence: Bridging Infrastructure and Governance for a Sustainable AI Future with Pr. PS Lee and Pr. Heng Wang
“It's always a case of fit for purpose, or what we call a proper engineering”. Some down-to-earth facts and analysis were coined by Pr PS Lee, one of the world's top experts in liquid cooling - and Pr. Heng Wang - a renowned expert in digital governance - while cross-analysing Singapore’s main challenges from an infrastructure and governance perspective of the ongoing AI Boom. Among the topics covered in this episode recorded live from the Green IO Singapore conference with Gael Duez were our imperfect, incomplete and unpredictable knowledge on AI, the fit for purpose approach with the right mix of cooling solution, dealing with legacy datacenter infrastructure, the moratorium on new data center and the other tools used by the Singapore government to cap energy consumption, and much more!
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#56 Building Green Software, the one year anniversary with Sarah Hsu
A year ago, Building Green Software was released by O’Reilly. Since Tim Frick’s book “Designing for sustainability” (8 years ago!), O’Reilly didn’t publish anything fully focusing on sustainability. So, it’s a fair statement that this book was long awaited.
But a year is an eternity in IT. This is why Sarah Hsu, one of its 3 co-authors as well as the chair of the Green Software Foundation’s Principles of Green Software committee, joined the show to talk about the trends she witnesses first hand in the green software engineering field and how she would envision a v2. More specifically she talked about:
🌟 GreenOps being the new kid in the block
👨🏫 What FinOps can teach to GreenOps
📈 How SRE can help treating environmental metrics like any other business metrics
🕵️♀️ The hard truth about the four nine
📏 Progress made in measurement
🔬 What the Rumsfeld’s Metrics can tell us about the difference between monitoring and observability
🚧 Why it should always be space and time for deviation
And much more!
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All the references, the link to get free tickets, the wrap-up article and the full transcript is on Green IO website here:
https://greenio.tech/blog
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#55 Decarbonizing Kubernetes with Flavia Paganelli and Niki Manoledaki
Did containerization ship away our environmental responsibility?
Containers come with the promise of automation, scalability and reliability. The question is how to add sustainability to the list without breaking its other benefits. To talk about these challenges, Gaël Duez welcomes Flavia Paganelli and Niki Manoledaki, 2 experts in Kubernetes who are also pillars of the CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability workgroup.
This episode might beat the record of acronyms: KEIT, CNCF, TAG … And yet Flavia Paganelli and Niki Manoledaki provided crystal clear explanations when they covered:
🍳 Why Kubernetes is a lot like a restaurant,
⛈️ The challenges with sustainability in cloud computing,
🛠️ The CNCF KEIT project,
🌱 CNCF’s reorg and what might happen to the TAG Environmental Sustainability,
💪 The power of open source communities,
And much more!
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📣 Green IO Singapore is on April 6th and our next stop is in New York on May 15th. Every Green IO listener can get a free ticket using the voucher GREENIOVIP. A small gift for your huge support. 🎁
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# 54 Agility and Sustainability with Joanna Masraff and Joanne Stone
"We are 100% convinced that IT sustainability matters but we can’t add more non business requirements, we have agile teams."
This often heard sentence from product managers or CPOs, led to this dedicated episode on agility and sustainability where host Gaël Duez welcomes 2 seasoned agile coaches: Joanne Stone, the founder of Agilist 4 planet and the We Hope Magazine, and Joanna Masraff, co-organiser of the the Agilists4Sustainability meetup group, and the Agilists4Planet conference. In this interview, filled with positive energy, they covered:
🛠️ Sustainability twisted technics,
🏃 Urgency vs sustainable pace of transformation,
🎯 Objectives or Key Results when incorporating Sustainability into OKR framework,
🎬 How to kick start sustainability transformation,
🔥 The importance of passionate people and influencers,
🧙 Agile coaches as alchemists of change.
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#53 Scaling GreenOps at Back Market with Dawn Baker
Changing its Cloud provider is never small potatoes, especially when a platform operates up to 40,000 containers and has about 4 million unique visitors a day to its website. Yet Back Market made the move from AWS to Google Cloud Platform motivated primarily by … sustainability concerns! In this episode its CTO, Dawn Backer, chats with Gaël Duez and covers a wide range of GreenOps topics such as:
☁️ Why they switched from AWs to GCP
📏 The needed granularity in carbon measurement
💸 Why FinOps is a no brainer to boost sustainability
🏦 The importance of carbon P&L in decision making
⚖️ The Dilemma of running GreenOps between carbon reduction and faster cloud instances
And much more!
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