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Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Carbon Debt, Energy Smells, and the Missing Water Story in AILive from Green IO, Tzviya and Kate are joined by Niki Manoledaki and Susannah Hill as they share highlights and key takeaways from the conference, exploring how sustainability is becoming a bigger priority across the tech industry. From practical engineering strategies to broader conversations around AI, infrastructure, and digital responsibility, the episode captures the energy of the event while unpacking what these discussions mean for developers and organizations trying to build greener software.Learn more about our people:Kate Goldenring: LinkedIn | WebsiteTzviya Siegman: LinkedIn | WebsiteNiki Manoledaki: LinkedIn | WebsiteSusannah Hill: LinkedIn | Website...
2026-05-2150 min
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Tokens, Water, and TransparencyTzviya Siegman and Kate Goldenring dive into the latest stories shaping green software, from the rising energy demands of AI to the practical tradeoffs developers face when building more efficient systems. They explore new ideas around measuring impact, smarter infrastructure choices, and how industry and policy are starting to respond. The conversation brings together real-world challenges and emerging solutions, showing how sustainability is quickly becoming a core part of modern software development.Learn more about our people:Chris Adams: LinkedIn | GitHub | WebsiteKate Goldenring: LinkedIn | WebsiteTzviya Siegman: LinkedIn | WebsiteFind out more...
2026-04-3029 min
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Green AI TradeoffsHost Kate Goldenring is joined by Chris Adams to explore how the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard can help companies meet new EU sustainability reporting requirements, shifting green software from best practice to audited obligation. They also discuss research on “green prompting,” showing that specific words can significantly impact AI energy use, along with new tools that reveal real-time energy consumption in AI workflows. They close by examining how rising AI demand is increasing hardware costs and disrupting the refurbished laptop market.Learn more about our people:Chris Adams: LinkedIn | GitHub | WebsiteKate Goldenring: LinkedIn | Website
2026-04-1653 min
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Local AI & Lean ObservabilityHosts Kate and Tzviya unpack the latest news This Week in Green Software, focusing on how sustainability is increasingly being integrated into everyday engineering decisions. They explore the push toward earlier measurement and accountability, the role of tooling in helping developers understand energy use, and the growing influence of policy and industry initiatives. The conversation highlights both the challenges and opportunities in making sustainability a standard part of software design, rather than an afterthought.Learn more about our people:Kate Goldenring: LinkedIn | WebsiteTzviya Siegman: LinkedIn | WebsiteFind out more about the...
2026-04-0232 min
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Energy effects of War in IranTWiGS hosts Tzviya and Kate are joined by Ryan Sholin of Electricity Maps to discuss how global events impact electricity availability, cost, and carbon intensity. They highlight that improving efficiency and better utilizing existing power grids could reduce the need for new energy infrastructure. The conversation connects energy awareness with software design decisions, emphasizing that developers and organizations can play a role in sustainability by aligning workloads with cleaner energy and understanding the broader energy context behind digital systems.Learn more about our people:Tzviya Siegman: LinkedIn | WebsiteRyan Sholin: LinkedIn | GitHub | WebsiteKate Goldenring: LinkedIn | GitHub...
2026-03-1945 min
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Who Pays for AI’s Energy Footprint?Host Kate Goldenring is joined by Chris Adams and Tzviya Siegman for a news round-up on sustainable software. They dig into EnergyNet and the idea of routing electricity more like the internet, unpack the latest AI energy and greenwashing debates, and look at policy and research angles — from proactive water planning for data centers to a cap-and-trade style proposal for AI efficiency.Learn more about our people:Chris Adams: LinkedIn | GitHub | WebsiteKate Goldenring: LinkedIn | WebsiteTzviya Siegman: LinkedIn | WebsiteFind out more about the GSF:The Green Software Foundation Website Sign up...
2026-03-0550 min
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: New Hosts!This Week in Green Software, Chris Adams is joined by new co-hosts Kate Goldenring and Tzviya Siegman to explore the latest stories on their radars. They unpack Microsoft’s community-first AI infrastructure pledge, the rise of gas-powered data centers, and the hidden embodied emissions behind AI models and storage hardware. The conversation also dives into the energy cost of AI prompts, new research measuring real browser energy use, and emerging models like billing AI by the kilowatt-hour. Together, they examine how transparency, standards, and smarter engineering decisions can shape a more sustainable digital future.Learn more ab...
2026-02-1951 min
The New Stack PodcastFrom Cloud Native to AI Native: Where Are We Going?At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 in Atlanta, the panel of experts - Kate Goldenring of Fermyon Technologies, Idit Levine of Solo.io, Shaun O'Meara of Mirantis, Sean O'Dell of Dynatrace and James Harmison of Red Hat - explored whether the cloud native era has evolved into an AI native era — and what that shift means for infrastructure, security and development practices. Jonathan Bryce of the CNCF argued that true AI-native systems depend on robust inference layers, which have been overshadowed by the hype around chatbots and agents. As organizations push AI to the edge and demand faster, more personalized experiences, Fermyon’s Ka...
2025-11-2844 min
Environment VariablesLLM Energy Transparency with Scott ChamberlinIn this episode of Environment Variables, host Chris Adams welcomes Scott Chamberlin, co-founder of Neuralwatt and ex-Microsoft Software Engineer, to discuss energy transparency in large language models (LLMs). They explore the challenges of measuring AI emissions, the importance of data center transparency, and projects that work to enable flexible, carbon-aware use of AI. Scott shares insights into the current state of LLM energy reporting, the complexities of benchmarking across vendors, and how collaborative efforts can help create shared metrics to guide responsible AI development.Learn more about our people:Chris Adams: LinkedIn | GitHub | WebsiteScott Chamberlin: LinkedIn | Website...
2025-08-071h 00
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedThe Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #43, SpinKube with Kate Goldenring of FermyonIn episode 43 of The Kubelist Podcast, Kate Goldenring shares her journey from Microsoft, where she contributed to Kubernetes edge computing and the development of Akri, to joining Fermyon to work on serverless WebAssembly. She dives deep into the technical details of Spin and SpinKube, Fermyon's open-source tools for running serverless WebAssembly applications on Kubernetes. The conversation explores the potential of WebAssembly for building efficient, event-driven applications, and discusses how this technology can lead to more sustainable cloud solutions.
2024-09-2545 min
The Kubelist PodcastEp. #43, SpinKube with Kate Goldenring of FermyonIn episode 43 of The Kubelist Podcast, Kate Goldenring shares her journey from Microsoft, where she contributed to Kubernetes edge computing and the development of Akri, to joining Fermyon to work on serverless WebAssembly. She dives deep into the technical details of Spin and SpinKube, Fermyon's open-source tools for running serverless WebAssembly applications on Kubernetes. The conversation explores the potential of WebAssembly for building efficient, event-driven applications, and discusses how this technology can lead to more sustainable cloud solutions.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2024-09-2545 min
Heavybit PodcastsEp. #43, SpinKube with Kate Goldenring of FermyonIn episode 43 of The Kubelist Podcast, Kate Goldenring shares her journey from Microsoft, where she contributed to Kubernetes edge computing and the development of Akri, to joining Fermyon to work on serverless WebAssembly. She dives deep into the technical details of Spin and SpinKube, Fermyon's open-source tools for running serverless WebAssembly applications on Kubernetes. The conversation explores the potential of WebAssembly for building efficient, event-driven applications, and discusses how this technology can lead to more sustainable cloud solutions.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2024-09-2545 min
Environment VariablesGreening ServerlessChris Adams is joined by special guest Kate Goldenring, Senior Software Engineer at Fermyon. Together, they ask the real questions “is serverless computing the greener choice?” and “if so, under what circumstances is this true?” Tune in for an illuminating conversation on the current state, news, and future of green computing, digging into the topics of cloud computing, soft allocation, WebAssembly, and more.Learn more about our people:Chris Adams: LinkedIn | GitHub | WebsiteKate Goldenring: LinkedIn | XFind out more about the GSF:The Green Software Foundation Website Sign up to the Green Software Foundation NewsletterNews:https://gi...
2024-02-1647 min
Cloud Native CompassServer-Side WebAssemblyKate Goldenring (Fermyon), Connor Hicks (Suborbital), and Kevin Hoffman (Cosmonic/wasmCloud) explore server-side WebAssembly: WASI, the component model, runtimes, and how Wasm sits alongside containers and Kubernetes.
2023-05-0849 minCloud Native CompassServer-Side WebAssemblyKate Goldenring (Fermyon), Connor Hicks (Suborbital), and Kevin Hoffman (Cosmonic/wasmCloud) explore server-side WebAssembly: WASI, the component model, runtimes, and how Wasm sits alongside containers and Kubernetes.
2023-05-0849 min
Cloud Native CompassServer-Side WebAssemblyIn this episode of the Cloud Native Compass podcast, the guests discuss WebAssembly and server-side WebAssembly. The guests include Kevin Hoffman, CTO of Cosmonic and creator of the WasmCloud open source project, Connor Hicks, founder and CEO of Suborbital, and Kate Goldenring, senior software engineer at Fermyon.They each share their experiences and paths to working with WebAssembly, with Kevin having experimented with Asm.js and CloudABI before discovering WebAssembly, Connor being drawn to the performance benefits of WebAssembly for a job processing framework, and Kate coming from a Kubernetes background and working on a project called...
2023-05-0849 min
The New Stack PodcastThe Latest Milestones on WebAssembly's Road to MaturityDETROIT — Even in the midst of hand-wringing at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America about how the global economy will make it tough for startups to gain support in the near future, the news about a couple of young WebAssembly-centric companies was bright. Cosmonic announced that it had raised $8.5 million in a seed round led by Vertex Ventures. And Fermyon Technologies unveiled both funding and product news: a $20 million A Series led by Insight Partners (which also owns The New Stack) and the launch of Fermyon Cloud, a hosted platform for running WebAssembly (Wasm) microservices. Both Cosmonic and...
2022-11-1016 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleAkri, with Kate GoldenringAkri is a recent open source project launched by Microsoft to manage edge devices. Kate Goldenring is a software engineer in Microsoft's Edge OS team and an Akri maintainer. She joins our final show of 2020 to talk about how to use Kubernetes to manage devices that can't run Kubernetes. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Reventure Kurstin X Grohl Puppy for Hanukkah (and story of) Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song News of the week Pixie Labs acquired by...
2020-12-1631 min