Most cloud sustainability tools are built for sustainability officers. They pull three-month-old billing data, run it through a proprietary model, and produce a PDF that engineers never see. By the time you know your us-east-1 cluster emits twice as much as us-west-2 would have, it's been running for a quarter. The architecture is locked in. The carbon is already burnt. The only moment you can act
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I've let conference attendance slide in the last few years (last was ElixirConf 2023), and would like to get back in the habit. I value them from a professional development/community POV. I've even got a trip to Europe planned in the next year and could dovetail that--since I'm suspecting that the "good conferences" are happening more and more outside of the states.