This tool estimates the carbon footprint for a hypothetical, average business software project. A set of decorators allows to play around to see the impact of different emission reduction measures.
This estimator uses a pragmatic approach to get a rough understanding. Is is in no way intended to be scientific and might have major flaws.
The easiest way to start is to run and adopt AllDecorators in the api project.
- Clone repo
cd apinpm inpm run test -- AllDecorators.test.ts- Inspect the console log. You'll see the estimates for the baseline plus the decorated (aka. optimized) version. It's a CSV, so for advanced analysis, copy it to Excel.
There's a frontend, but not much visible there.
- Clone repo
cd apinpm inpm startcd ../webnpm inpm run dev- Open given URL in browser. You will not yet see much though.
The emissions are estimated for an "average enterprise software project". Here's a description of the project at hand:
The software is developed by 8 developers during 2 years. The developers work in a near-shoring setup and the whole teams comes together every 6 weeks.
After the software is developed it is maintained by 2 developers until the end of life of the software which is after 8 years. The maintenance team does not use near-shoring.
The software is used by 9000 users distributed across Europe. Each user uses the software during 1h per business day during 8 years.
The usage is equally distributed over the day - except for the time between 11 and 14 o'clock where the load is doubled.
The application is a single page application served by a web-server which gets the data from a database-server. A job-server takes care of long-running jobs.
/apicontains an Express REST endpoint with the estimation logic/webcontains a React user interface/talkscontains preparation files to present the findings
