[ Responsible digital ]
Digital sobriety, the pragmatic way.
At Dexon, we apply engineering practices that reduce the resources your software consumes. They have a direct, measurable effect: lower infrastructure costs and faster applications.
- Approach
- Pragmatic sobriety
- Levers
- Infrastructure · code · assets
- Measure
- Consumption monitoring
- Benefit
- Cost and performance
- Horizon
- Application lifespan
- Updated
- 2026
[ Principles ]
Six engineering principles, not slogans.
Each principle has a concrete technical translation, and a benefit both your CTO and your finance team can verify.
- 01
Size for real use
Resources matched to actual usage rather than a hypothetical peak. What isn't used isn't paid for.
- 02
Don't compute twice
Caching and edge caching: an answer already computed is served from the point closest to the user.
- 03
Send less
Lighter images, scripts and data: fewer bytes transferred, pages that load faster.
- 04
Keep it simple
Lean architectures sized for the real need, with no complexity added on principle.
- 05
Measure
Track infrastructure consumption to decide on figures, not impressions.
- 06
Make it last
Maintainable software lives longer. The leanest software is the one you don't need to rebuild.
[ Infrastructure ]
Infrastructure sized to the need.
It is often the biggest consumption item, and the first lever for savings.
- 01Cloud optimisationInstances and services sized to actual load, reviewed as usage changes.
- 02Limiting overconsumptionNon-production environments shut down when idle, orphaned resources removed.
- 03PoolingShared resources where it makes sense, rather than dedicated infrastructure for every need.
- 04CDN & edge cachingContent served close to users: less traffic to the servers, shorter response times.
- 05Consumption monitoringResource usage tracked to spot drift and oversizing.
[ Code & data ]
Code that does less work.
Sobriety is also a matter of implementation details.
- Optimised queries: indexes, pagination, no cascading queries
- Fewer unnecessary calls: caching, batched requests
- Lean architectures, no microservices on principle
- Optimised images and assets: modern formats, lazy loading
- Only the JavaScript that is actually needed
[ Lifespan ]
The leanest software is the one that lasts.
Rebuilding an application every three years is expensive, in budget and in resources.
- Software lifecycle planned from the design stage
- Technical debt tracked and limited at every iteration
- Evolutive maintenance rather than full rebuilds
- Documented, transferable code other teams can understand
[ What we won't say ]
No greenwashing.
A credible message on digital footprint starts with what you refuse to promise.
- 01No "carbon neutrality"We don't claim neutrality or offsetting that we cannot demonstrate.
- 02No unmeasured figuresWe don't publish CO₂ savings we haven't measured on your project.
- 03No sobriety at the product's expenseSecurity, accessibility and user experience are not sacrificed in the name of optimisation.
For your tenders and procurement teams, we detail the measures applied to your project: what is done, how, and what is tracked.