Reducing Cloud Emissions One Commit at a Time

Why Sustainability Starts in Git

Data centers might be “in the cloud,” but the carbon they generate is grounded in real infrastructure. From compute-intensive pipelines to unnecessary log writes, every engineering decision impacts emissions. So we started treating carbon like we treat bugs: something to observe, trace, and fix.

How We Reduce Emissions at Microcorem

1. Real-Time Emission Dashboards
Every sprint, our CI/CD pipelines report energy usage across cloud services. We’ve added emissions logging next to performance metrics so engineers can see the environmental impact of code choices.

2. Carbon-Linting in Code Reviews
We’ve trained LLMs and rulesets to flag common patterns that lead to cloud waste—like unnecessary batch processing, bloated container images, or poorly scoped serverless functions.

3. Smarter Defaults for Greener Builds
From autoscaling guardrails to storage tier selection, our internal templates now come with eco-optimized presets by default.

4. Team-Wide Carbon Literacy
All engineers are trained on how cloud architecture decisions impact sustainability—from network latency to idle compute. This isn't about shame; it's about awareness.

5. Measurable Offsets, Publicly Logged
Where we can't reduce, we offset. And we log those offsets transparently, matched against the specific workloads they relate to.

Commit by Commit, Sprint by Sprint

Green engineering isn’t just an ops challenge or a budget issue—it’s a software quality metric. That means it deserves tooling, documentation, ownership, and iteration. At Microcorem, we’re turning “green” into something you can actually ship.