Carbon-aware scheduling notes for platform squads

Carbon-aware scheduling is still an emerging practice, which means honest communication matters more than virtue signalling. We introduce the topic as an optional module because not every employer tracks carbon signals yet.

Participants learn to read publicly published grid intensity APIs and discuss how to experiment without surprising on-call engineers. The lab stays technical: when to shift batch jobs, how to document trade-offs, how to avoid pinning blame on individuals.

We also cover limitations bluntly. Some workloads cannot move without violating latency promises; the memo template includes a section for “non-movable workloads” so leadership sees constraints.

Graduates leave with a short bibliography vetted quarterly. We do not award sustainability certificates; the goal is informed experimentation, not marketing badges.