Articles tagged ‘carbon footprint’

We are constantly trying to improve our web applications performance to gain speed, lower the load on the clusters and thus being able to attend to even more users but have you ever thought about how these improvements can aid Global Warming?

For years optimization techniques such as Caching in many levels (Disk/Memory), Compression, Clustering and other were developed to acheive greater performance.

Global Warming is there for years and is getting worse every year but it seems that movements under IT has begun in order to create greener solutions. Many hosts such as Dreamhost (which we’re proud of being our hosting company) have already started their effort in reducing or even neutralizing their Carbon Footprint and now developers can help on their side too.
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