Sustainable Tech: Green Coding Practices for Developers

Green coding is performance engineering with a sustainability lens. This guide covers practical steps to reduce energy and carbon.

Practices

• Efficient algorithms; fewer allocations; fewer roundtrips
• Caching, compression, and lighter payloads
• Build optimization; CI reuse; avoid unnecessary work

Cloud choices

• Regions with lower carbon intensity; workload scheduling

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