Green IT: Reducing the Environmental Footprint of IT and APIs with Erik Wilde

I popped on the legondary Erik Wilde's YouTube channel to talk about green tech, which uses creative and cost-effective solutions to reduce the environmental footprint of your web stack, data centers, and APIs.

Green IT: Reducing the Environmental Footprint of IT and APIs with Erik Wilde
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Erik Wilde is well known in the world of HTTP and APIs for his work on defining standards, and the excellent YouTube channel "Getting APIs to Work". which has over 250 videos talking about everything from data meshes, security breaches, and API lifecycle management.

I popped on the channel recently to talk about green tech, which uses creative and cost-effective solutions to reduce the environmental footprint of your web stack, data centers, and APIs.

"We all know that IT consumes quite a bit of energy and other resources. But how much, and what can we do to manage this better? Here's a gentle introduction with Phil Sturgeon who walks us through the general concepts and adds some API-specific flavor." More info and footnoes on YouTube.

Check out the video, if you are interested in the topic I've got an introduction to it all over here, or you can head straight to http://learn.greensoftware.foundation.

What is Green Software?
The Internet, good or bad? It’s causing about 4% of global emissions, so either way we should probably do something about that, and the Green Software Foundation is here to help us figure out what to do.

There's a lot more to cover, and relevant stuff will be popping up over here in general and on APIs You Won't Hate covering the carbon impact of different API design specifically.