The Prime Video team published this story: Scaling up the audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%, and the internet piled in with opinions and bad takes, mostly missing the point. What the team did follows the advice I’ve been giving for years (here’s a video from 2019): “Where…

Hertz recently started to rent electric cars, and we’ve tried them out a few times. Most people are used to renting cars, but renting electric cars is a fairly new thing, so I’m sharing to help encourage people to try it out and to hopefully smooth the way with some…

Medium launched me.dm a while ago as a gateway to the fediverse, but I haven’t seen much activity there. Posting here, I don’t see a Toot option, alongside the Tweet/Facebook options. Anyway since I have a separate account from my main account at @adrianco@mastodon.social that lives @adrianco@me.dm I decided to…

We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive. In particular, there is usually an excess of solar energy during the day that…

by Adrian Cockcroft The existing approaches to carbon measurement provide delayed data for carbon accounting that is more akin to billing information in the way it is structured and queried. This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed…

This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen. The keynotes didn’t feature anything new on carbon, just re-iterated the existing path to 100% green energy…

There’s been a lot of discussion about platforms recently, I talked about why I think it’s a current hot meme on the WTF Podcast with Charles Humble recently, and Sam Newman just wrote a blog post “Don’t call it a platform”. What I want to cover in this blog post…

I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series), and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up. From a career point of view, I was looking…

Most people have figured out that the average response time for a web service is a very poor estimate of it’s behavior, as responses are usually much faster than the average, but there’s a long tail of much slower responses. The common way to deal with this is to measure…