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
Subtitle: How to model a secure, escrow-based marketplace for emerging economies using Prisma and PostgreSQL. In my previous article on Medium, I discussed the sociotechnical challenge of Information Poverty in the African gig economy. But as engineers, we know that solving social problems requires more than vision it requires a robust, type-safe, and scalable data architecture. 1. The Core Acto