Chris Lloyd-Jones

How can Open Source Help Reduce Software Emissions?

Benefits of open source versus closed source, what tools are already out there and how open source can help reduce software emissions.

External Media

Green Software Engineering at Microsoft Build 2022

Using Green Software practices to develop applications in Azure, including optimal use of microservices, training of machine learning models, and carbon awareness at Microsoft Build 2022.

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Green Software Engineering - Tech Talk with Kazeem

Green Software Engineering is an emerging discipline with the principles and competencies to define, develop, and run sustainable software applications.

Futurology

Is the Creative Sector embracing the use of AI?

The creative sector seems to be embracing the use of AI to supplement creativity and content creation, rather than replacing any one task.

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Call to Action: Establishing a Centre of Excellence

Green software is yet to reach the tipping point—that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Part of our role should be to make our own evangelism unnecessary and green software the default.

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Call to Action: Success Factors, Measurements and Driving the Right Behaviour

Business leaders need to set a direction. To do that effectively it is necessary to know what you're trying to measure to promote change, and drive the adoption of green software engineering practices.

Futurology

The Future of Edge – “demassification”

The Edge is anywhere the internet isn’t. The internet as-is wasn’t designed for the current demands placed upon it. We live on a hyperconnected planet - few places are without internet.

External Media

Call to Action: Spreading the Message of Green Software

I wrote a blog for the Green Software Foundation - the start of a recurring series that I'm very excited about - Call to Action (CTA) - practical steps for spreading the message of green software within organisations. I've been invited to regularly write and share my thoughts on spreading

External Media

GitHub Copilot – GPT-3 powered coding

GitHub Copilot is in technical preview, a new AI pair programmer to suggest line completions and functions as you type.

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Industry group aims to tackle energy-efficient software development

Developers can use the Software Carbon Intensity specification from the Green Software Foundation to 'easily account for software carbon intensity in their day-to-day work in the same way they consider cost, performance, security, accessibility and other concerns today.'

Impact

Green Software - Making an impact

I've been absolutely chuffed to be part of the Green Software Foundation, as one of the many members and contributors to the Software Carbon Intensity specification. From my perspective, the overall goal of the specification is to drive action to reduce the carbon impact of the software in the world

How To

The Wonderful World of GitHub Actions

I've been open sourcing projects at Avanade for some time. I've recently needed a ton of automation - from code scans for security vulnerabilities and licensing compliance to automatically merging pull requests after a certain amount of time. I've just started a new role as Head of Open Technologies for

Futurology

The Metaverse - finally here?

Aside from (quite a few!) talks recently, around querying Azure Digital Twins with PowerBI, I've been pretty quiet. Why is that? Well, I'm finishing up my masters degree at the University of Edinburgh, focussed in the areas of AI, human interaction, and... how do we make human connections? So, why

External Media

Azure Confidential Ledger – attestability for the masses

I co-authored a blog for Avanade Techs and Specs, with a particular focus on Azure Confidential Ledger, or 'ACL'. Azure Confidential Ledger or ‘ACL’ is a lightweight and flexible managed decentralized data platform, built on top of Azure Confidential Computing and Intel SGX. Backed by blockchain technology, multiple parties can

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Microsoft Inspire 2021: Protecting your Ledger with Azure Confidential Computing

I spoke with Vikas Bhatia of Microsoft, and Paul O'Neill of intel to discuss a number of industry examples around Azure Confidential Computing.

Impact

Understand medical information in text

Over the last year, it won't have escaped anyone's notice really that there have been massive and unprecedented changes to the health of the world, and by extension, how healthcare is delivered. From mobile applications, like the COVID-19 app in England, to using augmented reality to ramp up the production

How To

Querying Azure Digital Twins with PowerBI

A Digital Twin is a digital replica of a physical object, space, or abstract process. It allows us to model the state of these things virtually, and then respond to events as they happen in real time. Microsoft provide an Azure Digital Twin service, which allows us to create pre-defined

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Thinking machines: Azure Digital Twins

I co-authored a blog for Avanade Techs and Specs, with a particular focus on Azure Digital Twins for AI and Machine Learning. We used Azure Digital Twins (ADT) to provide memory for our thinking machines, to add context. ADT is an Intelligent Cloud platform provided by Microsoft that allows you

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Open Source Models

What are the main OSS business models? Not licensing, but, how do these things stay alive, with a vibrant thriving community.

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MIT Future Compute: A round-up

Following my blog post about MIT Future Compute, I co-authored a more in depth article about cloud tech trends and connectivity for Avanade Techs and Specs. What’s on the horizon? 2021 and beyondI was lucky enough to attend MIT Future Compute 2021, to understand theconvergence of various technologies, from

How To

Power Automate for individual group notifications

Using Power Automate, and Flow Bot to send individual notifications to members of a Team - and fall back to email.

External Media

3 ways to turn your supply chain into a growth engine

Shift from recovery to growth in 2021 with a customer centric supply chain, using open data, defining your core business, and using responsible business principles. Syndicated from Avanade Insights.

Impact

Intelligent search at your fingertips: Semantic Search

Semantic Search offers better answers to search queries, understanding what the user means. Power up Cognitive Search, from Ignite 2021.

How To

Using Cognitive Search to make the law more accessible: Part 1

Using Azure Cognitive Search to index UK Law going back to the 1800s, to make it accessible and comprehensible

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Ethical and productivity implications of Intelligent Code Creation

I co-authored a blog for Avanade Techs and Specs, focussing on Intelligent Code Creation tools, like Kite and Tabnine. Intelligent code creation (ICC) uses machine learning models and embedded intelligence to provide developer support for writing secure best in class code. This can involve a developer co-pilot or an ‘AI