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  • #50 Is Eroom's law the future of Moore's law? with Tristan Nitot

    #50 Is Eroom's law the future of Moore's law? with Tristan Nitot
    2024/12/03
    Moore’s law is dead! Long live Eroom’s law! This provocative statement from Tristan Nitot highlights the pivotal role of software engineers in our journey as an industry toward a sustainable and more frugal digital world. The majority of our old devices, from smartphones to desktop, still work. How come that we waste such a massive gathering of precious resources such as minerals, energy, water and even our human time which we use to manufacture and maintain them? What should we do to break the trend of electronic waste and the ever-increasing footprint of the IT sector on our physical world? Gael Duez sat down with Tristan Nitot to start answering these questions in this Green IO episode where we covered: ⚖️ Why Wirth’s law matters more than Moore’s law 🗑️ How the Auvergnat cultural aversion for waste accelerated the birth of the Eroom’s law 🔎 How to find (sustainability) weakness in your software, 🐍 Why Python is not (always) guilty of being resource hungry and how to embrace a wise use of alternative libraries such as Polars, ✨The real ROII of using AI to optimize software.
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    44 分
  • #49 How to actually do Green Software in my company? with Annie Freeman

    #49 How to actually do Green Software in my company? with Annie Freeman
    2024/11/26
    Have you ever heard “The complaint of the lonely sustainability champion”? Its IT sector version? Here it is “I listen to the Green IO podcast and others as well, I read newsletters and articles from CAT, GWF, Boavizta, Greenit.fr, GSF, etc. But I’m isolated as a green software champion. I have the feeling that I cannot achieve much by myself. How could we actually do green software in my company?” This episode is all about sharing one concrete use case of someone, Annie Freeman, who achieved to build and deploy an internal tool monitoring carbon emissions in a SaaS company, Xero, with more than 4M users of its accounting software across a dozen countries. This achievement, among others, has won her to be named a finalist in the New Zealand Sustainable Business Network Awards in 2024 And she started it all by herself when she raised her voice in 2022 at a Xero’s internal technology conference despite having joined the company as a software engineer just a few months ago. In this episode, Annie Freeman shares great insights with host Gaël Duez on: 💪 How two motivated engineers can start a movement in a 4K employees company, 🔎 Tracking the cultural change signals, 🔄 Bringing carbon awareness in existing process rather than creating new ones, 🎓🛠️ Making Community of Practices & tooling working hands in hands, 📊 How Data management primes over UI when deciding to build a carbon dashboard, 🎙️ Why listening to Green IO actually helps (not Gaël saying 😉).
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    36 分
  • #48 - Greening the video game industry with Ben Abraham and Maria Wagner

    #48 - Greening the video game industry with Ben Abraham and Maria Wagner
    2024/11/12
    3 billion gamers worldwide, billions of devices, terabytes of data streamed, the gaming industry comes with pretty big numbers starting with its $455 billion sales in 2023. Is its environmental footprint as big? (Not) fun fact, not a single executive in this sector could answer the question. A new non-profit initiative, the Sustainable Gaming Alliance, is trying to get these numbers right and to equip the industry with the right framework. Its Managing Director, Maria Wagner, and its Research and Standard lead, Dr Benjamin Abraham joined this Green IO episode where great insights were shared on: 👿 The periodic table of torture for gaming device, 🖼️ The Gaming industry dependency on graphics to boost its sales 🕹️ Why “this game is beautiful” should be replaced as a praise by “this game is so enjoyable” 📋 Why GHG protocol is not adapted to the gaming industry 🌋 How to shake up a multi-billions industry in 10 weeks ? 🔄 Why the project mode in the game industry - and elsewhere? - doesn’t help a GreenOps culture to flourish 😴 Energy consumption at idle state
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    53 分
  • #47b - The Microsoft Azure dilemma with Holly and William Alpine - When enabled emissions “offset” sustainability claims

    #47b - The Microsoft Azure dilemma with Holly and William Alpine - When enabled emissions “offset” sustainability claims
    2024/10/29
    They both went to this job interview to hone their skills, and got a dream job at Microsoft! In its fast-growing and AI-pioneered Azure division. With a romance on top of it… Yet several years later, they decided to both resign. Why? On sustainability ground, and more specifically for the lack of support on “enabled emissions” issues. Holly and Will Alpine are now the Bonnie & Clyde of Azure and give us insider perspectives, in a nuanced and well-documented way, on this “elephant in the room” about sustainability claims in all big tech companies. In the final part of this 2-part episode, great insights were shared on : 🤯 What is enabled carbon and why it offsets by far all Microsoft achievements 😈 Devil is in the details from tailored solutions to “carbon-neutral” oil company not following standard definitions of “net-zero” ✨ Can responsible AI principles really not mention anything about the environment? ⚖️ Why regulation will ultimately be needed ♀️✊ And … the Pussy Riot!
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    38 分
  • #47a - The Microsoft Azure dilemma with Holly and William Alpine - Learnings from a 10K employee grassroots sustainability initiative

    #47a - The Microsoft Azure dilemma with Holly and William Alpine - Learnings from a 10K employee grassroots sustainability initiative
    2024/10/22
    They both went to this job interview to hone their skills, and got a dream job at Microsoft! In its fast-growing and AI-pioneered Azure division and with a romance on top of it… 💕 Yet several years later, Holly and Will Alpine decided to both resign. Why? On sustainability ground, and more specifically for the lack of support on the “enabled emissions” issues. 🕵️ Holly and Will are now the Bonnie & Clyde of Azure and they provide us with an insider perspective, in a nuanced and well-documented way, on this “elephant in the room” in all big tech companies: are their sustainability claims offset by the so-called enabled emissions? 🐘 In this first part of this 2-part episode, Holly and Will shared great insights with Gaël Duez on: 🌱 Microsoft’s employee grassroots sustainability initiative which gathers now more than ten thousands people ⚖️ The opportunity cost for most middle management to support sustainability initiatives 🛠️ The difference between attributional and consequential methodologies and why it impacts the adoption of SCI enabled tools 💰 Can investing millions in local community support justify the increasing data center expansion?
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    42 分
  • #C1 Special Green IO London 2024

    #C1 Special Green IO London 2024
    2024/10/14
    Today, we don’t have 1 or 2 guests but 12! In partnership with the YouTube channel Architect Tomorrow, we are glad to share with you snippets and interviews of the speakers who made the latest Green IO Conference in London a huge success last month. I have no idea if you have some appetite for this kind of content so feel free to come back to me at contact@greenio.tech or just comment on our posts on social media. One last thing, the audio quality is ok but not great because of the noise at the venue. If this episode gets some success, we will try to find a quieter place and better gear for the next editions of Green IO starting with Green IO Paris on December 4th and 5th. Still, I hope you’ll enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed crafting Green IO London 2024 for its attendees.
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    33 分
  • #46 - Green SEO with Natalie Arney and Stuart Davies

    #46 - Green SEO with Natalie Arney and Stuart Davies
    2024/10/01
    🔎 Green SEO? Not the most widespread concept in the sustainability field. Still, seasoned web designers and developers know it well: folks in charge of SEO often have the final say when it comes to content, design and even sometimes technical choices. And on top of this influence, SEO practices also carry their own environmental footprint being very data hungry. 🎙️ In this episode, Gaël DUEZ invites two seasoned SEO practitioners and pillars of BrightonSEO - one of the world’s top conferences on the topic - Stuart Davies, founder of the Ethical Agency Creative Bloom, and Natalie Arney, an SEO Consultant with a knack for sustainability to explore Green SEO. Some Takeaways: ↔️ the transversality of SEO functions, 💻 the alignment of the core web vitals with sustainability goals, 🌐 The importance of choosing sustainable hosting providers, ♻️ Practical sustainable SEO practices, and much more.
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    58 分
  • #45 - Assessing digital sustainability’s maturity with Aiste Rugeviciute and Rob Price

    #45 - Assessing digital sustainability’s maturity with Aiste Rugeviciute and Rob Price
    2024/09/17
    In the early 2020s, companies started facing a big question: how could they be more responsible in the digital world? Could something similar to CSR exist for this virtual and yet highly materialized world? Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) was coined to offer some much-needed guidance. 🎙️ To explore its ramification, Gaël DUEZ chats with two renowned experts in CDR: Aiste Rugeviciute, co-author of “B.A.-BA du Numérique Responsable” and now pursuing a PhD in the socio-ecological impacts of CDR strategies, and Rob Price, a key player in developing an international CDR framework. Rob also hosts the “A New Responsibility” podcast, diving deep into CDR's role in business. Some Takeaways: 🔑 the CDR framework in a nutshell, 🌿 the importance of embracing a balanced approach to CDR in most companies, and 🛠️ a sneak peek to the newly-released CDR maturity model.
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