About
Mitigation starts by treating technical debt and digital waste as sustainability problems. Idle compute, chatty microservices, oversized payloads, unbounded concurrency, always-on resilience, and forgotten data, environments, or duplicate workflows all become permanent excess: more kilowatt-hours, more emissions, more cloud spend.
We uncover where energy is wasted in everyday systems, from CPU boost events with no user value and I/O waits misread as CPU issues to zombie instances and hidden digital waste across storage, pipelines, and tooling.
These findings become a green debt backlog tied to measurable reductions in energy, cost, and operational heat.
The talk reframes performance as value per watt. It explores event-driven designs, lean data contracts, carbon-aware compute placement, and CI/CD checks for efficiency.
Attendees leave with practical habits to mitigate waste, innovate greener systems, and sustain gains long after the conference.
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The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Speaker
- Wilco Burggraaf
- Year
- 2026
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Computer science
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
- Who can watch
- CERN gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed