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Sustainable Practices for Businesses

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Publication date

May 15, 2025

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Sustainable Practices for Businesses: Smarter Growth in a Changing World

The longer you have been working in the technology sector, the more you are likely to see the strange irony of the situation: it is possible to create trading engines that would deal with millions of orders each second, real-time measuring IoT devices for crutches, full telemedicine systems and so on – still, lack of sustainability is one of the most common issues companies face.

Not the marketing kind, but the real, measurable, engineering-grade sustainability that improves product quality, reduces waste, and makes businesses more resilient.

I’ve seen this from different angles – building ComeBack Mobility, working in Teladoc telemedicine, scaling mobile teams in LiveXP, and helping founders shape their FinTech/Web3 platforms. Across all of these experiences, the companies that thrive long-term always do the same things surprisingly well.

So let’s talk about what sustainable business practices really look like today – without turning it into another generic “plant trees, save the world” lecture.
(Though trees are cool. You should still plant some.)

1. Sustainable Tech = Sustainable Business

A lot of founders still think “sustainability” means buying recycled paper for the office printer nobody uses. Meanwhile, true sustainability begins in the codebase.

A stable architecture, clean processes, and predictable releases reduce far more waste than any paper ban ever will.

From real experience:

  • In MedTech, a single architecture mistake can cost months of refactoring.
  • In FinTech, inefficient infrastructure can burn thousands of dollars per week.
  • In startups, technical debt becomes financial debt very quickly.

Sustainability is the result of treating engineering as a long-term investment, not a weekend hackathon.

2. Smart Infrastructure Decisions

I’ve seen teams jump into Kubernetes like it’s a trendy swimming pool – only to discover they don’t know how to swim.

Meanwhile, the most sustainable setups I’ve worked with usually start simple:

  • predictable deployments
  • clear logging
  • observability right from day zero
  • automation, wherever it doesn’t break things

A sustainable infrastructure is one you can actually maintain without a dozen SREs working night shifts. Sometimes that means AWS ECS instead of EKS. Sometimes that means not reinventing the wheel for the fifth time this month.

  1. People First: The Most Sustainable Resource You Have

Teams burn out faster than servers during Black Friday.
And guess what’s more expensive to replace?

People.

At ComeBack Mobility and Teladoc, the teams that performed consistently were the ones where:

  • communication was transparent
  • responsibilities were clear
  • help was offered early (not during the fire)
  • there was time to breathe

A sustainable business protects people from constant chaos, not the other way around.

  1. Reduce Waste (Technical + Operational)

Waste hides everywhere:

  • features nobody uses
  • meetings that solve nothing
  • servers running at 5% load
  • manual tasks that should have been automated a year ago
  • five analytics tools doing the same thing
  • documentation written once, never updated, but still worshiped

Sustainable businesses clean up waste ruthlessly.

A good rule:
If something creates no value, remove it. If something creates stress, optimize it. If something creates cost, evaluate it.

5. Digital Sustainability: Security, Privacy, and Trust

Especially relevant if you operate in MedTech, FinTech, or Web3.

A business that handles sensitive data must treat security as a long-term practice, not an annual penetration-test checkbox.

Modern sustainable operations include:

  • encrypted data everywhere
  • automated alerts
  • transparent incident response
  • privacy by design
  • minimal data retention
  • zero-trust patterns
  • predictable governance

Why? Because trust compounds.
And once lost, it’s nearly impossible to rebuild.

6. Sustainable Growth: Slow Down to Scale Faster

Sounds contradictory, but it’s true.

Startups that chase speed without structure collapse.
Startups that build foundations first – scale naturally.

In practice, sustainable growth looks like:

  • smaller but smarter teams
  • realistic roadmaps
  • clear KPIs
  • stable CI/CD
  • modular codebases
  • documented decisions
  • thoughtful onboarding

This is why some companies last a decade and some disappear after a single hype cycle.

7. Fun Facts About Sustainability in Business

To keep things lighter:

  • Amazon saves millions annually simply by optimizing server loads.
  • 40% of SaaS features are never used, according to product analytics research.
  • Developers spend up to 30% of their time fixing poor code, which could have been avoided with sustainable practices.
  • Reusing components and modules can cut development time by 50%, depending on the project.

Sustainability isn’t a “green” concept – it’s an efficiency concept.

Final Thought: Sustainability Is the New Competitive Advantage

The future belongs to companies that build smart, efficient, maintainable systems and protect the people who build them.

Whether you’re leading a MedTech device startup, a telemedicine platform, a P2P FinTech product, or a Web3 SaaS – sustainable practices ultimately determine how far and how long the business can grow.

You don’t need a 200-page strategy.

You need:

  • clear processes
  • thoughtful engineering
  • honest communication
  • and willingness to refine what doesn’t work

If your business masters these, sustainability becomes not just an ethical choice – but a strategic weapon.