Abstract
Introducing the track, this talk will define terminology and introduce the mental models needed to make sense of sustainability as a non-functional requirement for developing and operating systems. Sustainability includes measuring and reducing your carbon footprint, water stewardship, social responsibility in supply chains, and recycling to create a circular economy. This applies to the direct impacts of IT workloads, but in many cases, we are creating new IT workloads to measure and increase the sustainability of physical products that have a much larger impact. From an IT perspective, we have tended to focus on moving to sources of renewable energy, but we also need to take into account the embodied carbon and water usage of all the manufacturing, delivery, and operation processes for datacenters and devices.
Speaker
Adrian Cockcroft
Technology Advisor and Consultant @OrionX.net, Previously VP Open Source and Sustainability @Amazon, Cloud Architect @Netflix, Distinguished Engineer @eBay
Adrian Cockcroft is a technologist and strategist with broad experience from the bits to the boardroom, in both enterprise and consumer-oriented businesses, from startups to some of the largest companies in the world, equally at home with hardware and software, development and operations. He’s best known as the cloud architect for Netflix during their trailblazing migration to AWS and was a very early practitioner and advocate of DevOps, microservices, and chaos engineering, helping bring these concepts to the wider audience they have today.
Adrian spent the last few years as a VP at Amazon deeply immersed in the dual challenges of helping Amazon itself – one of the largest companies in the world – become more sustainable, and via AWS – one of the largest technology suppliers in the world – helping its enterprise and public sector customers become more sustainable.
Adrian has a BSc in Applied Physics and Electronics from The City University, London, UK. He’s a frequent speaker and has keynoted many events for AWS including many of the AWS Global Summit series, and has presented at many events such as the Monitorama, GOTO, YOW, QCon and DevOps Days conferences. He’s held past advisory positions at the following companies (acquired by): DeepDyve, Liquid Robotics (Boeing), Apcera (Ericsson), Ayla Networks, NGINX (F5), Docker, Instana (IBM), and Gremlin. He currently advises Nubank, Netai.ai, and a few stealth startups.
Find Adrian Cockcroft at:
Date
Tuesday Oct 25 / 10:35AM PDT ( 50 minutes )
Location
Bayview
