Niki Manoledaki and Stephanie Hingtgen from Grafana discuss their open source community roles and contributions toward environmental sustainability. Niki serves as a co-chair of the Green Reviews Working Group within the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group, focusing on promoting energy and carbon efficiency. Stephanie works on both the open source Grafana project and Grafana Cloud, emphasizing the value of contributing to open source. We discuss the importance of energy consumption metrics in technology, the use of Kubernetes for event-driven auto-scaling through KEDA, and efforts to enhance operational and environmental efficiency. Niki and Stephanie share insights on scaling applications, the relationship between cost reduction and environmental sustainability, and introduce several projects like Karpenter and Kepler.
00:00 Introduction to Grafana's Community Engagement
01:40 Exploring Environmental Sustainability in Tech
04:30 Diving into Open Source Contributions and Projects
05:26 Scaling and Autoscaling: Insights and Challenges
12:56 Cost vs. Environmental Sustainability
19:06 Personal Journeys into Open Source Software
21:24 Closing Thoughts on Open Source and Sustainability
How Grafana Labs switched to Karpenter to reduce costs and complexities in Amazon EKS
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