Niki Manoledaki is a Staff Platform Engineer at Grafana Labs, A CNCF Ambassador and Green Software Foundation Champion, and a core maintainer of Project Kepler. We explore the recent rewrite of Project Kepler and the challenges of measuring sustainability in the era of AI.

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Measuring Sustainability via Project Kepler, with Niki Manoledaki

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Measuring Sustainability via Project Kepler, with Niki Manoledaki