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Discussion on: Do you consider your carbon footprint while programming?

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Daniel McMahon

It's interesting and hard to justify when its economically cheaper for large corporations to crank out multiple replicas on a 'cloud' based server solutions, however thankfully the worlds moving towards a more 'serverless' approach running programs only when required instead of leaving machines on 24/7 to performer operations once an hour or so!

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Valentin Sawadski (he/him)

But the main driver behind β€žserverless” is not energy savings it’s again development speed and less working on ops. Serverless may have CO2 savings but this is only a side effect. Or am I wrong?

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Daniel McMahon

Oh for sure its definitely a side effect of a cost-saving measure, but its still a net positive for the environment!