The Carbon-Aware Pipeline: Architecting Sustainable DevOps for Smart City Infrastructure

Introduction: The Hidden Debt of the Smart City As smart city initiatives scale globally, the focus remains primarily on the visible “edge”—IoT sensors, smart grids, and citizen-facing applications. However, behind these services operates a massive, energy-intensive cloud infrastructure. In my daily experience managing cloud-native architectures at Contour Software, I have observed that while the…