The first article on this blog explained how it was built in 30 minutes with Claude Code. Naturally, a blog needs comments. Same constraints: no database, no external dependencies, no Disqus tracking visitors. Just PHP + JSON files. Built in one session with Claude Code — the interesting part wasn't the code, it was the security audit that followed. A comment system without a database seems trivia
When building applications with large language models (LLMs), one of the most overlooked costs is how structured data is represented. Most systems use JSON. And JSON is inefficient for LLM input. KODA (Knowledge-Oriented Data Abstraction) is a schema-first data format designed to reduce token usage when sending structured data to LLMs. It works by: Defining structure once (schema-first) Encoding v
If you have ever run DESCRIBE HISTORY on a Delta table that receives streaming data every 60 seconds and watched it either hang for hours or crash with an OutOfMemoryError, you are not alone and you are not doing anything wrong. The problem is architectural, and once you understand the internals, the fix becomes a lot clearer. Here is what I learned after digging into why this happens and what you