Citi reduced Mongo power footprint by 50%, 5000 instances, plus also 15% performance - ASK MARCEL MITRAN FOR THIS

I was trying to understand the figures, so I asked “why does this one use less carbon?” The answer? “Because it’s faster.”

This is, initially, counter-intuitive. For something like buying a car, there are hard choices. Should we get the muscley one with the bigger engine that goes vrrroooom, or should we get the economical one that preserves fuel and goes put-put-put?

“Performance is the art of avoiding work” - Stale Pederson The car is faster because it uses more resources. Quarkus is faster because it’s more efficient.

Of course, there’s always a trade-off. With Quarkus, there is a trade-off, but it’s not the tradeoff I expected. When running on JVM, Quarkus uses about half the memory footprint of a traditional cloud native framework, and starts about four times faster.

Counter-intuitive. TANSTAAFL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain%27t_no_such_thing_as_a_free_lunch

“Finer-grained conditional builds” Shorter, smarter, builds does seem like it would be such a massive win, doesn’t it? So much compute power is wasted on compiling things that didn’t change and then running tests that aren’t interesting … all while slowing down the feedback cycle for engineers.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/26/magazine/climate-change-warming-world.html?unlocked_article_code=nSFmgJkOOM86wP8afjvaX_PQjczJ2geMJRLbprE5vn9LA7umuI0cbtPUQrgDsufHwtq_uAtUZcKmtMlNyHB5iLIlI1s1KBYL7dUee266Dm-viXZSZkwOBBxCVWXQd6Y5U9oaV1AedzecR_Bg_dIdE_R7h6TKAMPmEfgU2wvT9BT689FF83ApOL-gX8kgnyjr6uuPIymwJsMPwTCaawnU_-6eIWu208mi-Whm9PViKp4MhKNToHPCvbgJZLhA-L1Nrg0VvtuPBwnwUI6cxh5SUzbZttxhcyHPH-Ayd9jSbnryf03Fqgce0YwK4ZC8eIm93xW8KmRFcOPQCboT4zji0ePIklmany6HtBT00fUmuBSPIGKPN8f8&smid=share-url

[![“Yep. Climate solutions are just better ways to do the things we want to do.

Unless you are a major shareholder in an oil company or something, most climate solutions will make your life and your community better. Quote Tweet Brady Faught @Bradyfaught · 4h I’m learning the decades-long message that “we must sacrifice our lifestyle to save the planet” is wrong:

• EV’s are better
• walkable cities with clean air are better
• induction cooking & heat pumps are better

What needs to be done is not sacrifice - it’s advancement”](foley-tweet.png)](https://twitter.com/GlobalEcoGuy/status/1549989438142517248?s=20&t=RHDNuiSmnr6oGhQsW15eQw)

These are called co-benefits.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-09-14-decarbonising-energy-system-2050-could-save-trillions-oxford-study Decarbonising the energy system by 2050 could save trillions - Oxford study

Moloch trap is the opposite, win-lose: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/moloch-trap