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Is an openSource alternative available ?

Advice 

Technology

B People

B Planet

A Prosperity

Difficulty

N/A

Priority

/

Récurrence

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Tests

Is the Sustainable IT performance of the open source solution a criterion of choice?

Precisions

An Open Source solution is not a guarantee of Sustainable IT efficiency and the different alternatives must be challenged. But open source makes it possible to limit the ambitions and control of certain actors whose economic and social practices are opaque.

Additional elements

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

0 / 0

Life cycle

Acquisition

11 other criteria related to the recommendation: Use environments and tools that limit impacts

Recommendation Essential

API

Are the functionalities covered by local actions (client side) privileged rather than API exchanges ?

Recommendation

Flux

Do you use caching mechanisms to limit exchanges ?

Recommendation

API

Is the data fed back by the APIs really only the data that the application needs when it is requested ?

Advice

API

Is an openSource alternative available for APIs ?

Recommendation

Technology

Do the libraries used allow you to take only the components that are actually useful ?

Recommendation

Technology

Are unused dependencies identified and removed ?

Recommendation

Technology

Couldn't the expected functionality be implemented with the native capabilities of the browser ?

Recommendation

Technology

Are all the technical equipment used by the service identified ?

Advice

Technology

For each equipment, are the characteristics available ?

Advice

Technology

Are the functionalities related to regulated data processing (health, personal, banking) validated in terms of interoperability ?

Advice

networks

Are the latest technical advances used when they really help reduce impact ?