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Episode 15 - Green Software - Green Series 1
We have another issues episode this week. Today we’re starting our series on green data centers. I’m really excited about this. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I have spent a lot of time optimizing data centers for energy efficiency and I’ve seen a lot of bone headed stuff as well as some incredibly brilliant engineering around data centers and I can’t wait to talk about it. Since this is the first of our series we’ll start with a bit of an overview and then dive right in with the first topic in the series which is… Software. That’s right, green software. I’m guessing that a lot of people haven’t really thought of software as being a waste of energy but, have you ever accidentally copied a huge directory from one place to another… or maybe even lost it. That was wasted computation. It was a mistake and it maybe took five minutes to finish copying. All of that time and electricity was wasted and so were your nerves while waiting to see if you nuked your whole hard drive. Well take that feeling and multiply it by ten to the tenth because that is the sort of computation that happens every day across the world and if we could stamp that out just a little bit, we’d save billions of dollars, millions of kilowatt hours and probably thousands of jobs.
Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast.
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Articles utilized in this episode:
https://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/feature/Overprovisioning-VMs-may-be-safe-but-it-isnt-sound
https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/serverless-architectures-learn-more/
https://hackernoon.com/what-is-serverless-architecture-what-are-its-pros-and-cons-cc4b804022e9
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We have another issues episode this week. Today we’re starting our series on green data centers. I’m really excited about this. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I have spent a lot of time optimizing data centers for energy efficiency and I’ve seen a lot of bone headed stuff as well as some incredibly brilliant engineering around data centers and I can’t wait to talk about it. Since this is the first of our series we’ll start with a bit of an overview and then dive right in with the first topic in the series which is… Software. That’s right, green software. I’m guessing that a lot of people haven’t really thought of software as being a waste of energy but, have you ever accidentally copied a huge directory from one place to another… or maybe even lost it. That was wasted computation. It was a mistake and it maybe took five minutes to finish copying. All of that time and electricity was wasted and so were your nerves while waiting to see if you nuked your whole hard drive. Well take that feeling and multiply it by ten to the tenth because that is the sort of computation that happens every day across the world and if we could stamp that out just a little bit, we’d save billions of dollars, millions of kilowatt hours and probably thousands of jobs.
Our sponsor this week is Green Lane Design. Green Lane has been designing, engineering and building critial facilities for over ten years including major enterprise customers as well as colocation facilities. GLD has designed and developed an integrated stack of design disciplines. If you would be interested in a free assessment go to http://www.greenlanedesign.com/contact/ and mention the podcast.
Our music is algorithmically generated by Jukedeck. Create your own at http://jukedeck.com. Try it out. It's free.
Articles utilized in this episode:
https://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/feature/Overprovisioning-VMs-may-be-safe-but-it-isnt-sound
https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/serverless-architectures-learn-more/
https://hackernoon.com/what-is-serverless-architecture-what-are-its-pros-and-cons-cc4b804022e9