Saving the Planet, One Byte at a Time - Sofia Larsson

You might have heard about how cryptocurrency is responsible for a huge amount of the world's carbon emissions. But did you make the connection that the software we build also has a significant carbon footprint? In fact, the carbon footprint of our industry is the same size as the entire world's aviation industry.
In this talk, you will learn about the environmental impact of software services and products and how you can use your skills (accessibility, caching, cloud regions and load-shifting) to reduce the carbon footprint.
Sofia is a software engineer who has worked with some of the largest companies in Sweden. She hosts one of Sweden’s most popular technology podcasts, "Developers! - mer än bara kod", and is a digital sustainability evangelist who will do what it takes to make digital products and services sustainable.
This session was recorded at Swetugg Stockholm 2023, Swetugg is run by a group of volunteers with different IT backgrounds with a common denominator: A passion for creating good software and better software developers, no matter if you are just starting your journey or have been writing code since the beginning of unix time.