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Environment Variables

Greening Serverless

Feb 16, 2024
Kate Goldenring, Senior Software Engineer at Fermyon, discusses the environmental benefits of serverless computing. Topics include cloud computing, soft allocation, WebAssembly, resource optimization, and deep green concepts. The conversation highlights the future of green computing and reducing carbon intensity.
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Quick takeaways

  • Oversubscribing in serverless computing increases resource utilization, reducing embodied emissions.
  • WebAssembly in serverless computing allows for cross-platform application execution and simplified development with Spin.

Deep dives

The concept of oversubscribing in serverless computing

Oversubscribing in serverless computing involves allocating more applications to a physical server than its actual resources can handle. This is based on the statistical bet that not all applications will receive requests at the same time. By oversubscribing, the number of required servers can be reduced, leading to higher resource utilization and reduced embodied emissions.

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