Add blog article for .NET 8 upgrade #524

YaSuenag · 2024-05-16T11:27:02Z

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Issue Number: #501

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Add blog article for .NET 8 upgrade
This article was written by @tiwatsuka , @nttDamien , and me.

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Signed-off-by: Yasumasa Suenaga <[email protected]>

YaSuenag · 2024-05-16T11:29:14Z

CC: @Sophietn , @danuw

You can review the document on my branch: https://github.com/YaSuenag/carbon-aware-sdk/blob/pr/dotnet8-blog/casdk-docs/blog/2024-05-16-dotnet8/index.md

danuw · 2024-05-22T07:54:09Z

@YaSuenag @nttDamien , thank you for much for this ... really liked the introduction but felt the end was a bit abrupt. Could we try and maybe add a conclusion with a call to action?

Also I really liked the dashboard, and wondered if you could maybe add a tiny bit on interpretation - "we can observe [this], so we would probably do [X] next" or "wait for Y in order to Z..." and what may be a natural next step for you or the person reading (again more as an illustration/use case example)
I guess, finishing reading with a feeling that I understand how beneficial this was for you would be ideal - so maybe worth adding a section near the introduction on what you use the SDK for in business terms (what it brought to your team/company) please?

cc @vaughanknight

vaughanknight · 2024-05-22T07:56:09Z

@danuw and I were just chatting so we're going to comment here to give some feedback.

Article is good, some great content. Main place to look at is the conclusion - it just stops. Would be good to have a "How can start with the Carbon Aware SDK?" with a paragraph and some links that relate to the article.

After we have the conclusion/summary/next steps section at the end, Dan and I will go through and do a detailed review and help with any edits we can pick up.

nttDamien · 2024-05-23T00:04:28Z

@YaSuenag @nttDamien , thank you for much for this ... really liked the introduction but felt the end was a bit abrupt. Could we try and maybe add a conclusion with a call to action?

Also I really liked the dashboard, and wondered if you could maybe add a tiny bit on interpretation - "we can observe [this], so we would probably do [X] next" or "wait for Y in order to Z..." and what may be a natural next step for you or the person reading (again more as an illustration/use case example) I guess, finishing reading with a feeling that I understand how beneficial this was for you would be ideal - so maybe worth adding a section near the introduction on what you use the SDK for in business terms (what it brought to your team/company) please?

cc @vaughanknight

Thanks a lot for those two comments, we will work on that !

nttDamien · 2024-05-23T00:05:53Z

@danuw and I were just chatting so we're going to comment here to give some feedback.

Article is good, some great content. Main place to look at is the conclusion - it just stops. Would be good to have a "How can start with the Carbon Aware SDK?" with a paragraph and some links that relate to the article.

After we have the conclusion/summary/next steps section at the end, Dan and I will go through and do a detailed review and help with any edits we can pick up.

Thanks @vaughanknight I guess it would makes sense to link to the call to action mentioned by @danuw .

Signed-off-by: Yasumasa Suenaga <[email protected]>

YaSuenag · 2024-05-24T02:10:24Z

I updated the article. @vaughanknight @danuw Could you review?

Sophietn · 2024-06-25T08:26:38Z

casdk-docs/blog/2024-05-16-dotnet8/index.md

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+As most software nowadays, the Carbon Aware SDK relies on a stack of utilities, and while adding a new feature is usually the most appealing for a project, it’s also critical to maintain the stack, especially in a community effort.
+
+Containerization has helped shifting the upgrading work to a more convenient time for the development team, but there are still various motivation for keeping a stack up to date with current versions: security, bug fixes, performance, support… but the best is to couple with new feature development: such was the case for .NET framework.


..has helped shift…
..various motivations for …

Sophietn · 2024-06-25T08:32:20Z

casdk-docs/blog/2024-05-16-dotnet8/index.md

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+## Broken build pipeline on GitHub Actions
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+Thanks to GitHub, a lot of automation is available in order to publish code, allowing to focus more on coding, in particular the Carbon Aware SDK repository is configured to publish WebAPI container image (like a snapshot build) when a commit occurs on the dev branch. 


… allowing ‘contributors’ to focus more on coding. In particular…

Sophietn · 2024-06-25T08:34:01Z

casdk-docs/blog/2024-05-16-dotnet8/index.md

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+Fig.2 Logs in `dotnet publish` on GitHub Actions
+
+Further investigation was done, and thanks to a [.NET blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/improving-multiplatform-container-support/), about multi-platform container support, that an unsupported approach was used for the build, and needed to be amended. More precisely, since .NET 6, QEMU static binaries were used to build container image for multi platforms.


…thanks to a .NET blog about multi-platform container support, we identified that…

Sophietn · 2024-06-25T08:38:51Z

casdk-docs/blog/2024-05-16-dotnet8/index.md

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+# Use case in NTT / NTT DATA
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+While NTT & NTT DATA have been contributing to the Carbon Aware SDK a long time, none appeared in the [adopters list](https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/carbon-aware-sdk/blob/dev/casdk-docs/docs/overview/adopters.md), it is now changed thanks to those uses cases.


…a long time, we had not previously publicly referenced our adoption of the tool.
The Carbon Aware SDK v1.4.0 carbon metrics exporter (dependent on .NET8 upgrade) has increased the usefulness of the SDK due to increased visualization capabilities. …

Sophietn · 2024-06-25T08:43:30Z

casdk-docs/blog/2024-05-16-dotnet8/index.md

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+# Moving Forward
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+With the Cloud Computing expansion, and Kubernetes flexibility, more and more choices exist for running a workload, and while business and economical constraints seem obvious to lead those decisions, Carbon footprint have to be taken in account. Its relevance will be more and more pregnant.


Pregnant isn’t right here.
… While business and economical constraints often lead those decisions, the carbon footprint is becoming an increasingly critical consideration.

Sophietn · 2024-06-25T08:44:04Z

casdk-docs/blog/2024-05-16-dotnet8/index.md

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+With the Cloud Computing expansion, and Kubernetes flexibility, more and more choices exist for running a workload, and while business and economical constraints seem obvious to lead those decisions, Carbon footprint have to be taken in account. Its relevance will be more and more pregnant.
+
+This is a difficult endeavour, and the first step is to know where one stands, measure but also later evaluate and confirm what action would lead to improvement. That was one of the intent behind the Green Dashboard for Kubernetes, and the Carbon Aware SDK 1.4 is key element in this approach.


..one of the intentions

Sophietn · 2024-06-25T08:44:37Z

casdk-docs/blog/2024-05-16-dotnet8/index.md

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+By providing a standard interface to the carbon emissions of the energy, the Carbon Aware SDK is a key element for IT sustainability: from evaluating current carbon footprint up to taking in account carbon intensity for geo or time shifting…
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+Thanks to the community effort the first step is a click away with the quickstarting guide, available for everyone.


Add link to getting started guide

Sophietn · 2024-06-25T08:48:46Z

The article is great - thank you @YaSuenag @nttDamien
I have suggested a few minor edits as comments.

YaSuenag · 2024-06-26T08:36:22Z

casdk-docs/blog/2024-05-16-dotnet8/index.md

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+Thanks to the new Carbon Aware SDK v1.4.0 carbon metrics exporter (thanks to .NET 8), more visualization capability are reachable.
+
+This feature facilitate integration with monitoring solutions like [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) and furthermore with a visualization solution like [Grafana](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/visualizations/): unlocking geomap style visualization (showing metrics at specified locations on a map). By enabling the exporter and making some settings on Grafana, carbon intensities can be exported from Carbon Aware SDK to a geomap, this is part of a dashboard to monitor carbon emissions for software systems.


This feature facilitate -> This feature facilitates

Signed-off-by: Yasumasa Suenaga <[email protected]>

YaSuenag · 2024-06-26T23:31:55Z

@Sophietn CC: @vaughanknight @danuw @nttDamien

Thanks for your comment! I fixed the document.

vaughanknight

Lots of edits in this review, but otherwise happy with the blog post!

casdk-docs/blog/2024-05-16-dotnet8/index.md

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YaSuenag · 2024-07-10T07:28:55Z

@vaughanknight CC: @nttDamien @danuw

Thanks for your comment! I fixed them. Can you review again?

vaughanknight

Looks great now, thanks for the updates.

danuw

Looks great thanks

danuw · 2024-08-06T21:54:10Z

Great work - thanks!!

Do we need to start looking into .net 9 update now? :)

nttDamien · 2024-08-07T00:39:29Z

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		As most software nowadays, the Carbon Aware SDK relies on a stack of utilities, and while adding a new feature is usually the most appealing for a project, it’s also critical to maintain the stack, especially in a community effort.

		Containerization has helped shifting the upgrading work to a more convenient time for the development team, but there are still various motivation for keeping a stack up to date with current versions: security, bug fixes, performance, support… but the best is to couple with new feature development: such was the case for .NET framework.


		## Broken build pipeline on GitHub Actions

		Thanks to GitHub, a lot of automation is available in order to publish code, allowing to focus more on coding, in particular the Carbon Aware SDK repository is configured to publish WebAPI container image (like a snapshot build) when a commit occurs on the dev branch.


		Fig.2 Logs in `dotnet publish` on GitHub Actions

		Further investigation was done, and thanks to a [.NET blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/improving-multiplatform-container-support/), about multi-platform container support, that an unsupported approach was used for the build, and needed to be amended. More precisely, since .NET 6, QEMU static binaries were used to build container image for multi platforms.


		# Use case in NTT / NTT DATA

		While NTT & NTT DATA have been contributing to the Carbon Aware SDK a long time, none appeared in the [adopters list](https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/carbon-aware-sdk/blob/dev/casdk-docs/docs/overview/adopters.md), it is now changed thanks to those uses cases.


		# Moving Forward

		With the Cloud Computing expansion, and Kubernetes flexibility, more and more choices exist for running a workload, and while business and economical constraints seem obvious to lead those decisions, Carbon footprint have to be taken in account. Its relevance will be more and more pregnant.


		With the Cloud Computing expansion, and Kubernetes flexibility, more and more choices exist for running a workload, and while business and economical constraints seem obvious to lead those decisions, Carbon footprint have to be taken in account. Its relevance will be more and more pregnant.

		This is a difficult endeavour, and the first step is to know where one stands, measure but also later evaluate and confirm what action would lead to improvement. That was one of the intent behind the Green Dashboard for Kubernetes, and the Carbon Aware SDK 1.4 is key element in this approach.


		By providing a standard interface to the carbon emissions of the energy, the Carbon Aware SDK is a key element for IT sustainability: from evaluating current carbon footprint up to taking in account carbon intensity for geo or time shifting…

		Thanks to the community effort the first step is a click away with the quickstarting guide, available for everyone.


		Thanks to the new Carbon Aware SDK v1.4.0 carbon metrics exporter (thanks to .NET 8), more visualization capability are reachable.

		This feature facilitate integration with monitoring solutions like [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) and furthermore with a visualization solution like [Grafana](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/visualizations/): unlocking geomap style visualization (showing metrics at specified locations on a map). By enabling the exporter and making some settings on Grafana, carbon intensities can be exported from Carbon Aware SDK to a geomap, this is part of a dashboard to monitor carbon emissions for software systems.

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