DevSusOps - Bringing Sustainability Concerns to Development and Operations (50:49)
InfoQ, Friday, May 26,2023
Adrian Cockcroft defines terminology and introduces the mental models needed to make sense of sustainability as a non-functional requirement for developing and operating systems.
Cockcroft: My name is Adrian Cockcroft. I'm going to talk about adding sustainability concerns to development and operations. I'm calling this DevSusOps.
Why does sustainability matter?
You may have various different thoughts about this. I think I've got most of them here. The definition of sustainability is really around leaving the world habitable for future generations. That's the essence of the United Nations definition of sustainability. The reason it matters to most companies is regulatory compliance. Particularly in Europe, the regulators are saying, you've got to measure and report your carbon footprint and other sustainability risks. In the U.S., we're moving in that same direction, and around the world, wherever you are, you've got regulation, saying you're going to have to figure out what is the sustainability posture of your organization.