SRE methods and climate change

SRE methods and climate change
Site Reliability Engineering’s goal is to ensure that software systems and services that are created in an organization are made to evolve easily and especially to be extremely reliable. To do that, many aspects of software engineering are applied to infrastructure topics. Those methods are born at Google and are increasingly popular since the release of the book “Site Reliability Engineering” in 2016. DevOps, SRE, what’s the difference ? As we have used some buzzwords, let’s make it clearer before we move forward. [Read More]

Scaphandre v0.1.1: measuring the energy consumption of the tech industry (backstages)

Scaphandre v0.1.1: measuring the energy consumption of the tech industry (backstages)
The roots of the project As many other tech workers in startups, I’ve worked on pretty large scale projects (even if that’s subjective). I’m talking about projects involving machine learning, for example, that are often about showing the right advertisment to the right person at the right moment. Training the machine learning models for that requires a lot of resources (CPU, RAM, GPU, etc.). The same is true with APIs that are in charge of collecting data from the clients (the data will very often be used to train the ML models). [Read More]