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
I travel a lot. And every single time, I'm standing in an airport Googling "do I need an adapter for Thailand" while my boarding group is already lining up. The existing tools for this are bad. They're buried in blog posts from 2016 with popup ads, or they're a wall of text that doesn't actually answer the question. I already had most of the data. My destination guides on Vientapps cover dozens of