The environmental footprint of the digital world and why reduce it?

• The Ecological crises
• The digital footprint in details: client devices, data centers, networks, perspective.
• The mechanisms that push devices to obsolescence, including software problems

At the end of this section, you will be able to describe in detail the environmental impacts of digital technologies, their nature and causes, as well as how software contributes to these problems.

The ecodesign approach

• Assess the impacts of a digital service
• The existing tools
• Ways to ecodesign
• Examples of ecodesign
• Collateral benefits of ecodesign
• Frameworks that can be used and examples of practices and criterias
• Links with software craftsmanship

At the end of this section, you will know how to assess the impacts of your service, understand the eco-design approach and have a repository of ideas and practices to improve your product.

Technical choices and design

• Architecture choices, link with other capabilities
• Data management
• Impact of SLA and QoS
• Compatibility strategies
• Optimisation of applications and websites
• Hosting and deployment optimisations (Greenops)

At the end of this section, you will be able to evaluate the technical and architectural choices to minimize the environmental footprint of the service.

Assessment tools

• Presentation of several client and server side assessment tools

At the end of this section, you will have in mind a list of tools that can be used to evaluate the performance of your system and its progress in reducing its environmental impacts.