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Let’s Architect! Architecting for Sustainability
We often read news about sustainability and how governments and large corporations are working to build a better world for the future. But, have you ever asked yourself what you can do? As a software architect, how can you make a difference by addressing sustainability challenges?
In this first post of Let’s Architect!, a series of posts that gathers content to help software architects and tech leaders explore new ideas, case studies, and technical approaches, we provide materials to help you design sustainable architectures and create awareness on sustainability.
Optimizing your AWS Infrastructure for Sustainability
How do you optimize the compute layer of your environment from a sustainability perspective? An idle server still consumes power, and regulating its power consumption is one way to improve environmental impact. But, the cloud offers many other metrics and features to monitor and optimize your system.
This blog post shows you how to analyze the utilization of your compute resources, explains the main features to automatically scale based on demand, and highlights how serverless can optimize your resource utilization. Knowing how to use your resources efficiently will help reduce the amount of energy spent by your workload.
The shared responsibility model for sustainability shows how it is a shared responsibility between AWS and customers
Building Sustainably on AWS
This talk provides several best practices you can follow as to design more sustainable architectures. It gives different tips to integrate sustainable practices throughout business operations and provides some guardrails that could help you achieve your organization’s sustainability goals more quickly.
Luke Hargreaves explaining how to build sustainably on AWS
Moving to event-driven architectures
An efficient architecture is typically a more sustainable architecture. This video explains how Amazon.com approaches event-driven architectures.
Event-driven architectures use events to communicate across different microservices. This architectural pattern works to reduce bandwidth consumption and CPU utilization and potentially lower cost. By choosing a serverless event-driven architecture, you’ll optimize your overall resource utilization because the code is run in response to events.
Tim Bray presenting how to move to an event-driven architecture at re:Invent 2019
Supporting climate model simulations to accelerate climate science
This blog post discusses how collaborating research teams use the data generated through climate model simulations to study impacts on Earth and human systems—including agriculture, drought, flooding, and human health—in various parts of the world.
These studies will advance understanding of near-term climate and climate-intervention responses, and accelerate progress on a time-sensitive problem for humanity.
This architecture built on AWS ParallelCluster supports weather and climate modeling workloads
See you next time!
Thanks for reading! If you want to deep dive into the topic of sustainability even more, don’t miss the Architecture Monthly edition on Sustainability.
See you in a couple of weeks when we discuss novel ways to use machine learning and artificial intelligence!
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