• by   #Anne Currie (Author)

• digital book and PDF type

• best selling book

• Language:English

How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, sustainable software advocates Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic–discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers. Ideal for everyone from new developers to CTOs, Building Green Software tackles the challenges involved and shows you how to build, host, and operate code in a way that’s not only better for the planet but also cheaper and relatively low-risk for your business. The problem with code efficiency is that although cutting CPU GPU use can potentially have a huge impact on carbon emissions and is well understood–the same techniques have been used for many decades in high-performance computing (HPC)–it is high effort for engineers. You might get a hundredfold reduction in carbon emissions by switching, for example, from Python to a much more efficient language like Rust, but there will be a price to pay in productivity. Developers really do deliver much more quickly when they are using lower machine-efficiency languages like Python.