Software Development and Sustainability with Brendan Kamp

Connect with Brendan Kamp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-kamp-757e With Google as My Neighbor, Will There Still Be Water? - https://algorithmwatch.org/en/protests-against-data-centers/ Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/BtTjnPoBvgI Beyond Coding Podcast with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Powered by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! OUTLINE00:00:00 - Intro00:00:28 - What is sustainable tech?00:02:29 - Sustainability in programming languages00:05:13 - Optimizing a few hot paths00:07:26 - Is it worth optimizing algorithms?00:10:50 - Optimizing for readability00:13:26 - The Zen of Python00:15:58 - Underutilized infrastructure00:17:54 - Reducing infra by 40-50%00:19:59 - Cloud providers are damaging the planet00:22:44 - Offsetting emissions and green washing00:26:21 - Distributed datacenters in hotels and swimming pools00:30:07 - A datacenter that has more rights than citizens00:31:55 - Who is at fault00:33:34 - Microsoft's emissions growing since AI boom00:34:45 - Fit for 5500:35:12 - What is greenwashing?00:37:39 - You have to adhere to sustainability practises00:39:13 - Emission scopes00:41:50 - Saving costs on cloud resources00:45:06 - Why overspend happens00:48:20 - People problems00:51:12 - The power to implement00:53:45 - Everlearning