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Sustainable Engineering (#84)

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In this Foojay Podcast, we're exploring a critical topic that's becoming increasingly important in our industry: developing sustainable software that is both performant and environmentally friendly.

At the Devoxx and JFall conferences, I had fascinating conversations about how we as Java developers can make a real impact on both our cloud costs and our carbon footprint. And it's interesting to learn how these two goals are often perfectly aligned: what's good for your budget is usually good for the planet too.

We start with Daniel Witkowski. He published an article on Foojay that takes us on a deep dive into performance tuning. He explains why optimizing your code can have a thousand times more impact than saving 30% on cloud costs, and walks us through his journey of turning a simple integer validation challenge into a masterclass on Java performance optimization.

Next, I caught up with Ko Turk, who shares his passion for sustainable engineering and space exploration. He introduces us to Kepler, a tool for monitoring the energy consumption of your applications, and explains how performance optimization naturally leads to sustainability improvements.

Then Ronald Dehuysser, founder of JobRunr, reveals how his open-source job-scheduling library now enables carbon-aware job processing. He explains how JobRunr can automatically schedule non-time-critical jobs to run when renewable energy is most available.

And finally, Jan Ouwens joins us to discuss practical strategies for reducing both costs and CO2 emissions in your applications. He explains why cloud spending is actually a good proxy for your carbon footprint.

00:00 Introduction of topic and guests

02:07 Daniel Witkowski

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielwitkowski
https://foojay.io/today/the-art-of-performance-tuning-why-saving-30-in-the-cloud-means-nothing-if-your-code-wastes-1000x-more/
https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-83/
Why Saving 30% in the Cloud Means Nothing if Your Code Wastes 1000× More
Performance tuning is less about syntax and more about craftsmanship.

29:46 Ko Turk

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ko-turk-b271b929/
https://github.com/sustainable-computing-io/kepler
Sustainable engineering
Kubernetes Efficient Power Level Exporter (Kepler)

32:46 Ronald Dehuysser

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronalddehuysser/
https://www.jobrunr.io/en/
Carbon-aware job processing with JobRunr
Growing from an open-source project to a company

37:36 Jan Ouwens

https://www.linkedin.com/in/janouwens/
https://jqno.nl/
Reducing the cost and CO2-emissions of your application
Private cloud versus cloud providers

45:14 Outro

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