Building environmentally aware API platforms w/ API Management

About this episode

The episode discusses how Azure API Management can help reduce the environmental impact of API landscapes.

Are you striving to reduce the impact on the environment for your A(P)I landscape? Azure API Management is here to help! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:37 - Measuring carbon emissions with Azure Carbon Optimizations 03:03 - Carbon-optimized load balancing in Azure API Management 11:20 - Carbon insights & traffic shaping in policies 15:18 - Benefit of carbon-optimization at-scale 17:03 - wrap up Recommended resources Announcement Sign-up Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman: https://x.com/SHanselman Tom Kerkhove | @tomkerkhove: https://x.com/TomKerkhove Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

People in this episode

Host: Scott Hanselman

Guest: Tom Kerkhove

Topics covered

• environmental impact
• API management
• carbon emissions
• load balancing
• traffic shaping
• carbon optimization

Keywords

• API
• environment
• carbon emissions
• Azure
• load balancing
• traffic shaping
• optimization

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Azure API Management, Azure, Azure Carbon Optimizations

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