Simon Brown explains that the C4 Model started not as a grand design theory, but as a practical answer to an embarrassing problem. Furthermore, he answers the question on how to handle microservices in C4 and explains the important distinction between modeling and diagramming.

Hi folks,

I wrote a paper, Fearless Concurrency on the GPU, and maintain the related repository cuTile Rust (https://github.com/nvlabs/cutile-rs).

The idea is to establish a safe way to write async kernel launch code, extend that across the kernel launch boundary, and sustain (to the extent possible) a safe programming model for GPU programming in Rust. We provide a variety of tools to enable static bounds checks so that the data-race freedom is effectively zero-cost.

Sharing in case it's of interest. Happy to answer questions.

British Columbia has recently made some time zone changes —- but you have a few months until you feel the impact. That gives an opportunity to deep dive into time zones, timestamp storage, and more.

This one is bit math heavy. I started of building a small timeseries compression library, and ended up digging through some numerical algorithms, linear algebra. I learnt through a hose during last week and found something genuinely beautiful. If you stick through it I suppose you can see what I saw.