Making Software Greener, Ltd. employee Matt Williams is speaking at Kansas City Developer Conference on Thursday, September 10, 2026, at 3:45–4:45 PM, and on Friday, September 11, 2026, at 3:30–4:30 PM, giving two talks titled Waste Is a Bug and Performance, Cost, and Carbon Are the Same Problem.

Can your software survive success? Making Software Greener helps growing software organizations find the hidden architectural, operational, and organizational weaknesses that threaten their ability to scale, adapt, and continue delivering value. Growth, team turnover, rising cloud costs, organizational change, AI-assisted development, and increasing complexity can expose risks that remain invisible while everything still appears to be working. We connect technical evidence to business consequences. Our flagship Survivability Review helps leaders understand: * What is vulnerable * Which pressures could expose it * What evidence supports the finding * Why it matters to the business * What should be addressed first The Survivability Review is one expression of a broader engineering intelligence approach: helping organizations understand their systems from evidence rather than assumption. Making Software Greener began with a simple observation: waste in software rarely stays confined to energy use. The same underlying decisions often appear as rising cost, poor performance, operational fragility, technical debt, and systems that become harder to change. Following those consequences led to a broader question: Can this software continue delivering acceptable value as pressure and change increase? That question now shapes our work across architecture, operations, organizational knowledge, reliability, cost, sustainability, and change. Performance, cost, reliability, and carbon are often the same problem viewed from different angles. Measure consequences. Fix causes.