Have you ever wondered about the carbon footprint of your API?<p>This week, the 27th climate summit takes place in Egypt. This inspired us to draw attention to the emissions produced by our online behaviour.<p>We introduced some CO2-related features to our API testing tool:<p><pre><code> - Calculate carbon emissions of an API call
- Set up a check to validate that your API endpoint doesn't cross the limit when it comes to emissions
- Test all your API endpoints and get an approximate calculation of your API emissions in total
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We hope that by using these features, you will become more aware of the carbon footprint of your infrastructure and act accordingly. You could for example switch to a sustainable hosting provider.<p><a href="http://github.com/stepci/stepci" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/stepci/stepci</a>
The first question I have is: how? How do you calculate this?<p>Its’s neither obvious from your post nor your GitHub landing page, which is a shame.<p>The other question I would have is: who is the target audience, and why are API calls specifically so important?