Tom Kerkhove

Tom Kerkhove, a Senior software engineer at Microsoft specializing in Azure API Management, shares insights on creating environmentally sustainable software. He discusses the importance of making carbon footprints visible in applications and the potential of shifting workloads to low-emission data centers. Kerkhove highlights the need to measure emissions before taking action and addresses the issue of wasted CI/CD cycles. He also emphasizes the role of autoscaling in energy saving and the benefits of using API policies to minimize unnecessary workloads.