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 …