Rick Butterfield: Decarbonising the planet, one Umbraco upgrade at a time

The internet emits a truly enormous amount of CO2. Indeed, it’s estimated that across the world, the collective carbon consumption of the internet is equivalent to that of the entire airline industry (Source: ClimateCare) - that’s around 3.7% of all global emissions (Source: BBC).

On the release of .NET 5, Microsoft announced it would be up to 50% faster than the previous version. As such, when Umbraco released version 9 it was expected that this version was between 1.5x and 2x more performant than Umbraco v8. For organizations, this meant upgrading their site from v8 to v9 had the potential to halve their hosting costs. From these metrics we hypothesized that upgrading to v9 could lower the overall carbon emissions of a website. In this talk you'll hear about the journey we took with our client and whether our hypothesis was true or not.

Agenda:
18:30 - Open for social and mingling (+ food/drink)
19:00 - Talk - Decarbonising the planet, one Umbraco upgrade at a time
19:45 - Second micro talk - TBC
20:00 - Open social

Entry:
Go to reception, there will be someone there to guide you to where the talks are taking place.