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Green IO New York 2025: Intelligent Systems And Responsible Infrastructure

May 14–15, 2025 — New York City Green IO held its first U.S. conference in New York this May, bringing together a technically savvy, action-oriented audience. Hosted by the Green IO podcast and Apidays, the event focused on practical, production-ready strategies for reducing digital systems’ environmental impact—while simultaneously improving their intelligence, scalability, and resilience. The main themes of the event were clear: APIs are becoming critical infrastructure for AI and agent-based systems, and sustainability is increasingly a core engineering and product strategy, not a side… Read More »Green IO New York 2025: Intelligent Systems And Responsible Infrastructure

How to Break the Cycle of Neglecting Platform Health and Sustainability

What happens when urgent always wins over important? We have all been there—pushing off upgrades because product features need shipping or another fire needs putting out. It feels harmless until it is not. A small, ignored patch turns into a critical vulnerability. An old framework suddenly breaks your deployment pipeline. The cost of these delays piles up quietly, eroding security, reliability, and scalability. When things finally break, the fallout is bigger, costlier, and far more disruptive than if the upgrades had been done incrementally. Technical… Read More »How to Break the Cycle of Neglecting Platform Health and Sustainability

How We Won the IMAGINE Grant: Tips for a Successful Nonprofit Application

Having worked on a winning IMAGINE Grant application in the “Go Further, Go Faster” category for a project at Fair Trade USA, I wanted to share a few practical tips that might help others. These insights come from my personal experience navigating the process—from aligning a technical vision with organizational goals to crafting a clear, focused proposal. Whether you’re just getting started with AWS or already building on the platform, I hope this helps you write an application that highlights both your innovation and your… Read More »How We Won the IMAGINE Grant: Tips for a Successful Nonprofit Application

How to Build a Sustainable and Ethical Website or a WebApp – Main Principles and Checklist

Fundamental principles: More than ever, sustainable web design is needed to curtail the disastrous effects of the Internet on the environment. According to sustainablewebdesign.org, communications tech will emit more carbon by 2025 than any country except China, India, and the United States. We can be that change. By making websites cleaner and more efficient, the environmental impact can be confronted head on. Adding accessibility to people with disabilities and slow machines will benefit communities and poor nations. Our charge is to make web content more… Read More »How to Build a Sustainable and Ethical Website or a WebApp – Main Principles and Checklist