apidays Paris 2022 - 5 Guiding Principles To Practical Digital Ecodesign, Florimond Manca, Fairness

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December 14, 15 & 16, 2022

5 Guiding Principles To Practical Digital Ecodesign
Florimond Manca, Software Engineer and Open Source Developer at Fairness
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1. 16/12/2022
   5 Guiding Principles To
   Practical Digital Ecodesign
   Apidays Paris 2022
   Florimond Manca
   Software developer, Fairness
   

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2. 2023 SERIES OF EVENT
   New York
   May 16&17
   Australia
   October 11&12
   Singapore
   April 12&13
   Helsinki & North
   June 5&6
   Paris
   SEPTEMBER
   London
   November
   15&16
   June 28-30
   SILICON VALLEY
   March 14&15
   Dubai & Middle East
   February 22&23
   

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3. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 2
   « Where do I start ? »
   

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4. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 3
   

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5. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 4
   Principle #1
   Learn the basics
   A short recap
   on what matters...
   

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6. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 5
   ^ Source: Planetary boundaries, Steffen et al 2015,
   Persson et al 2022, Stockholm Resilience Center
   < Credit : TSMC, Ltd
   ^ Surroundings of the Ajka
   aluminum factory,
   Hungary, 2010
   Digital infrastructure is critical and depleting
   

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7. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 6
   Source: Environmental impact assessment result for a
   personal computer, Choi et al, 2006
   Source: The environmental footprint of the digital world, GreenIT.fr,
   2019
   See also: Controverses minières, SystExt, 2021 (FR)
   User equipment, networks, datacenters
   Avoid manufacturing of new equipment
   

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8. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 7
   Principle #2
   Start from existing
   practices
   Good news, bad news...
   

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9. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 8
   Ecodesign x Engineering practices
   Resource utilization
   Performance efficiency
   (ISO 25010)
   Time behavior
   Capacity
   Leverage existing tools web.dev, Lighthouse, Yellow Lab Tools...
   Rebound effects?
   (ISO 14006)
   

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10. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 9
    Principle #3
    Question the needs
    « Do we really need…? »
    

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11. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 10
    Story time
    

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12. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 11
    Bringing everyone at the table
    Users
    🤝
    Engineers
    UX designers
    PO / PM
    

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13. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 12
    Principle #4
    Beware measurement
    bikeshedding
    « What one cannot measure, one
    cannot improve. »
    …Or can we?
    Source : Wikiquote
    

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14. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 13
    Measurements...
    Greenhouse gases (GHG)
    Water consumption
    Primary energy
    Ecotoxicity
    Abiotic resource depletion
    ✅
    ❔
    ❔
    ❔
    ❔
    Estimates
    Lifecycle
    analysis (LCA)
    

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15. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 14
    Source: Boavizta,
    Multicriteria server impacts,
    dec 2022
    See also: boaviztapi
    See also: Scaphandre
    

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16. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 15
    Ecodesign is (a lot of) common sense
    Squeeze that brain juice!
    

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17. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 16
    Principle #5
    Aim for the radical shift
    Ascending the gradient of
    ecodesign radicalism
    

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18. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 17
    Gradient of ecodesign radicalism*
    L1 L2 L3 L4
    Optimization
    Technical
    redesign
    Functional
    innovation
    Slow tech
    (Radical shift)
    *Inspired by GreenIT.fr, Sobriété : manifeste pour une slow.tech, oct 2022
    ●
    SQL queries
    ●
    Code bottlenecks
    ●
    Data
    compression
    ●
    Reduced storage
    ●
    ...
    ●
    Modular
    architecture
    ●
    Pull vs Push
    ●
    Extensive
    caching
    ●
    ...
    ●
    Cross-functional
    cooperation
    ●
    Simplified user
    journeys
    ●
    Agressive feature
    cuts
    ●
    ...
    Mix of:
    ●
    High-tech
    ●
    Low-tech
    ●
    Social innovation
    

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19. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 18
    Learn the basics
    Expand existing practices
    Question the needs
    Aim for the radical shift
    Summary
    #1
    #2
    #3
    #4
    #5
    Beware measurement bikeshedding
    Further resources
    ●
    ISO 14006
    ●
    GreenIT.fr reports and studies (fr/en)
    ●
    ecoindex.fr (fr)
    ●
    MiNumEco (fr)
    ●
    Gauthier Roussilhe’s work (fr/en)
    ●
    supertanuki/numeriqueEcoResponsable (fr)
    

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20. 16/12/2022 Apidays Paris 2022 - Florimond Manca 19
    Q&A
    @florimondmanca
    @fairnesscoop
    florimondmanca/talks
    

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