This is the second article about how working with temporal information in computer systems. The first article was about contained some definitions about astronomical time and timezones.

This article describes options for storing temporal values in your programs, and their limitations. In particular, it describes two pitfalls that can happen …

This is a collection of notes about time and related concepts. A future post will talk about the problems of representing time in computer systems, especially distributed systems. These notes will be occasionally updated.

Introduction

Time is taken to be a primitive concept that cannot be defined in terms of …

I have been reading – at a very shallow level – about category theory (wiki), and thinking about its applicability to software and system design for data engineering. This post is a loose collection of thoughts on the subject, and a manifesto for employing a more rigorous language when building such systems …