DevOpsSustain 2025

The First International Workshop on DevOps for Sustainability (DevOpsSustain), co-located with FSE 2025, provides a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss topics related to the challenges and opportunities in the interplay of DevOps and sustainability. This one-day workshop will include a keynote, presentations of technical research/experience papers, ideas/visions/reflections or working-in-progress papers, demos, and industry presentations. This workshop is timely and important due to the prevalence of DevOps practices, the pressing concern for sustainability, and the important role that DevOps plays in sustainability.

Call for Papers

Scope and Topics of Interest

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are causing ever-growing energy consumption and carbon emissions. Software is at the center of ICT, from large-scale data centers to personal devices. Thus, improving the energy efficiency of the software is critical for reducing the energy footprint of ICT and contributing to sustainable development. DevOps has become the main principle for developing and operating modern software systems, which aims to enhance the velocity of releasing high-quality software through automation and integrating development and operations responsibilities. On the one hand, the fast DevOps release cycles pose significant challenges for ensuring the energy efficiency of software and its deployment environment. On the other hand, DevOps provides great opportunities for enhancing software sustainability, since the integration between development and operations allows for continuous collection and analytics of energy consumption data, which can be leveraged as feedback for optimizing the energy efficiency of software and its deployment environment.

The International Workshop on DevOps for Sustainability (DevOpsSustain) provides a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss topics related to the challenges and opportunities in the interplay of DevOps and sustainability. This one-day workshop will include a keynote, presentations of technical research/experience papers, ideas/visions/reflections or working-in-progress papers, demos, and industry presentations. We welcome contributions that foster meaningful discussions on foundational and novel topics at the intersection of DevOps and Sustainability.

This workshop edition will explore topics related to:

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in any other venue. Papers should follow the ACM format required by FSE 2025. Papers should be submitted via the HotCRP submission site.

We plan to accept three types of submissions, as described below. The page limits include references.

The accepted papers will be included in the FSE companion proceedings to be published in the ACM digital library. As a published ACM author, you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the paper in person at the workshop to have the paper appear in the FSE companion proceedings.

Important dates

Technical Program Committee

Organizing Committee