Jake Howlett
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Jake Howlett

I am a software developer at Scott Logic based in Bristol and I have a passion for sustainable software. More specifically how we can make the whole software lifecycle, from hardware production to continual deployment systems, more sustainable.

Sustainability
If you do one thing to optimise cloud carbon footprint start with your choice of region. Consider the balance between cost, environmental, security and performance considerations when it comes to choosing a cloud region consciously.
Sustainability
Part of the Conscientious Computing series this blog talks about the emerging ecosystem of organisations that are promoting sustainability within software development, cloud computing, infrastructure, and digital services.
Sustainability
Carbon emissions come in all shapes and sizes, in this blog post I talk about the more elusive sources of embodied carbon from software development.
Sustainability
You think software has enough variables, right? Well there is another one that has become a big consideration when designing, developing and deploying software and its name is Sustainability. This area of consideration comes with its own terminology and with this blog post I hope to shed some light onto the nomenclature. So when someone comes up to you and says "I want to design a sustainable, carbon aware system that focuses on reducing the operational carbon of my business but also minimises embodied carbon", you will know exactly what they are looking for!