EN Reading list: greener software engineering
Recent highlights from my reading queue:
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Green Software Handbook — clear framing of energy, carbon, and hardware efficiency levers. Great reminder to log both compute and data movement costs.
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Power profiling in CI pipelines — several teams now ship optional runners with power sensors. The best results come when the profiling step is opt-out and runs on the same workloads as the regular suite.
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Edge vs. cloud trade-offs — migrating work to the edge can cut latency and power if workloads are bursty, but only when idle scaling is aggressive and observability remains centralized.
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Developer UX matters — green advice that is buried in reports gets ignored. Inline hints in the IDE and chat reminders tied to pull requests have better adoption.
I keep refining these notes as I learn; expect this post to evolve alongside the experiments I run with teams.
