Longevity of software
Published in Product Engineering, Thinking.
Services shipped with Windows 95 no longer work – ICQ, AOL Messenger, MSN. All shut down. But how likely is that today?

Published in Product Engineering, Thinking.
Services shipped with Windows 95 no longer work – ICQ, AOL Messenger, MSN. All shut down. But how likely is that today?
Published in Data Center Energy, Environment.
To avoid accusations of greenwashing, data center operators must consider investing in a portfolio of renewable energy products. RECs cannot credibly be used to back claims of 100% renewable energy use.
Published in Cloud, Data Center Energy, Environment, Paper notes.
My notes on the paper: Montevecchi, F., Hinterholzer, S., Stickler, T. & Hintemann, R. (2020) Energy-efficient cloud computing technologies and policies for an eco-friendly cloud market: final study report.
Published in Cloud, Product Engineering, Startups.
Developers face an onslaught of marketing and an unrelenting velocity of releases to keep up with. This is why we started Console.
Published in Data Center Energy, Environment, Paper notes.
My notes on the paper: Bol, D., Pirson, T. & Dekimpe, R. (2021) Moore’s Law and ICT Innovation in the Anthropocene.
Published in Data Center Energy, Environment, Reports.
Most data center sustainability strategies still focus on renewable energy certificates (RECs). RECs are now considered low quality products because they cannot credibly be used to back claims of 100% renewable energy use
Published in Hardware, Product Engineering.
I now have to make a decision between having the best, cutting-edge hardware vs the freedom and control to do what I want with the device I spend most of my time on.
Published in Academic Papers, Cloud, Data Center Water, Environment.
An examination of the water consumption of data centres, the measurement of that consumption, a discussion of the lack of data available to assess water efficiency, and where the industry is going in attempts to reduce future consumption.
Published in Cloud, Data Center Energy, Environment, Startups, Status Update.
What’s next? 1) Console – a free weekly email digest of the best tools for developers; 2) researching sustainable computing at Uptime Institute.
Published in Favourite Books.
In 2020 I read 31 books (with an average length of 481 pages). Here are the ones I rated 5 stars.