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How Wasm Powers Databases: Building a UDF Engine

This article is based on a project at TiDB Hackathon 2020. User-defined functions (UDFs) are an important extension to the SQL language. When you want to do customized computations in a database, you can write the desired computation logic as a UDF and pass it to the database. But not all DBMSs accept UDFs. For those that don’t, a UDF engine is the solution we need. That’s why we built a UDF…

#40 hugely. Usually when I draw a number from the bowl, I’ll go into my voice memos and listen to what’s there. I wasn’t a fan of the way I wrote #40 for a lot of reasons. It’s very telling, I figure, about what kind of content I write when I think about who it’s for and where it’ll end up. At the time, it was never going to be heard by ears other than mine. It was solely to get my thoughts out of my head. And now is coming the part where I share it. 

There are a lot of personal songs in 52 and I knew when I started uploading them that there are things I’ve never said out loud or admitted to anyone or even to myself that I’m expressing in these songs. 

I don’t want to say I censored myself but revision was certainly my friend when I drew #40 out for this week. The concept and theme is still very much the same but I changed key, tempo, time signature and chucked most of the lyrics. The revised version will be uploaded on YouTube and I might post the memo of the original here because no one gives a shit and won’t look here. 

i’ve g0t a pr0gram that registers text 0n an image. as l0ng as the f0nt is basic and clear i can l0ad an image 0nt0 it t0 check what the text is.