Season 2 - Reliable Sustainability Preview

Kevin Yu: Welcome to season two of Making of the SRE Omni Podcast, where we talk about achieving business and client success via the practice of site reliability engineering. Sustainability is front and center of many conversations today from boardrooms to living rooms. But does being sustainable simply mean reducing carbon footprint or does it mean more? In season two of the podcast, we will talk to experts to understand the meaning of sustainability.

Christina Shim: It's really about development that meets the needs of what we need to do in the present day without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Of course we need to meet the demands of today. We also need to make sure that we're not taking away from the demands of tomorrow.

Kevin Yu: Big numbers that reinforce why we need to act now.

Rishi Vaish: It turns out if you want to absorb 50 billion tons of greenhouse gases, you would need to plant 1 trillion more trees on the planet today. And then again, 1 trillion is a big number, right? So the Amazon jungle has roughly three to 400 million trees. So you are talking about planting three Amazon jungles to absorb just one year's emissions.

Kevin Yu: As well as practical actions we can take to turn our ambition into reality.

Suzanne Livingston: We have technologies that will help you provision just what you need in time, but we also have to take responsibility in how we design software so that we can monitor, so that we can adjust, so that we can dynamically scale based on what the demand is and It really starts with right at the beginning, what are you coding and what can you deliver into your software that you're developing and designing to help enable monitoring down the road, help enable dynamic scaling, help enable automation so that later you're not paying for that?

Kevin Yu: Season two is all about how the practice of site reliable engineering can play a big part in helping and leading us to a more sustainable future. So join me as we crack some plant- based eggs as some ESG and turn sustainability ambition into reality.