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72: Measuring the impact of cloud computing on carbon footprints (with Kubecost's Kai Wombacher)

August 08, 2024

In this week's episode, ITOps Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Kai Wombacher, product manager at Kubecost, a company that provides cost monitoring for Kubernetes. 

They discuss: 

  • How sometimes we forget about the environmental effects of software
  • Cost-cutting measures go hand in hand with reducing environmental impact
  • The open source project OpenCost and how it can be used to tackle the issue