Berlin Buzzwords 2026 - Julien Nioche on Greenops and new open source project SPRUCE

This is a LIVE discussion with Julien Nioche, the creator of SPRUCE, open source greenops framework. We recorded LIVE at Berlin Buzzwords 2026.

Cameraman is Zoom's AI and it goes a little crazy at times zooming on Julien and zooming back out. As usual, audio version will be available. Go to https://www.vectorpodcast.com/

He gave a talk about SPRUCE at the conference: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/spruce-it-up-open-source-greenops-at-scale/

Timcodes:

00:00 Intro

00:16 Julien's background

01:36 What is SPRUCE

2:51 Greenops vs FinOps

6:09 Reasons cloud providers won't go deeper on greenops

7:09 Ways to deploy SPRUCE

15:06 Cultural shift needed for Greenops

17:39 How to measure impact of AI agents and LLMs