GIS Ph.D., Co-founder and CEO of @LuceniaIO #OpenSource. Opinions my own.

Joined March 2009
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Nick Knize 🌐 retweeted
11 Sep 2025
Our CEO, @nknize Nicholas Knize, Ph.D., is speaking today at @TheASF’s Community Over Code in Minneapolis! πŸ“ Community Over Code Conference πŸ•‘ 2:20 PM CT, September 11 🎀 Forking for Freedom: What Forks & Sporks like OpenSearch Teach Us About Open Source See you there! #CommunityOverCode #OpenSource #Open #Apache #Lucenia #apache #opensource #code #devops #technology #tech
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Me, every time I see Big Cloud slap a β€œcommunity” label on something they control: #OpenSource #search #foss #searchAI #AI
15 Apr 2025
How do we, the startup community, tell big cloud vendors (like Amazon) that vendor-controlled β€œopen source” isn’t acceptable? @nknize (creator of OpenSearch) just gave a πŸ”₯ talk on what’s next. πŸŽ₯ youtube.com/watch?v=FJex8lHM… #OpenSource #FOSSBackstage #Lucenia #SearchAI #CloudComputing
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Berlin, March 11 @fossback '25 I'll talk good, bad, ugly of creating OpenSearch. From PR #1, drama ensued. My journey, while rocky, paved the way for other forks & taught hard lessons re: Corporate interests in Open Source. Come hear it all! #opensource 25.foss-backstage.de/session…

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Nick Knize 🌐 retweeted
2 Jan 2025
Happy New Year from us at Lucenia! πŸŽ‰ Here’s to a 2025 filled with growth, innovation, and success. Wishing you all prosperity, health, and happiness in the year ahead. We can’t wait to see what this new year brings. #HappyNewYear #Welcome2025 #Innovation #Teamwork #Lucenia
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Got it again this year!!! Happy New Year everyone! #HappyNewYear2025 #TwilightZone @TheNightGallery
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And another year passes. This is the fourth time I haven't missed one of my favorite episodes "The Invaders" during the amazing #TwilightZoneMarathon
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Nick Knize 🌐 retweeted
24 Dec 2024
Santa is flying! πŸŽ… Track his sleigh in real time, starting NOW!πŸ“ Gifts delivered, miles traveled, and sleigh speedβ€”LIVE!πŸ‘‰ santa.lucenia.dev You can also chat with Mrs. Claus or peek at the Naughty/Nice List! #SantaTracker #HolidayMagic #christmas #search #startup
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It appears @NoradSanta tracker might have some slight miscalculations. According to their tracker, Santa arrives in Brazil around 9:20pm local time. Our tracker still has him in Portugal at 12:20am local time, which seems to track his flight plan better. santa.lucenia.dev
Folks, I've just received intel from the experts at @NoradSanta that Santa Claus is on his way!
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Nick Knize 🌐 retweeted
24 Dec 2024
Santa is flying! πŸŽ…β€”LIVE!πŸ‘‰ santa.lucenia.dev Track his sleigh in real time, starting NOW!πŸ“Gifts delivered, miles traveled, and sleigh speed! #SantaTracker #HolidayMagic #RAG #generativeai #NORADTracksSanta #Christmas2024 #tech #startup
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Spatial RAG meets the North Pole! πŸŽ… Lucenia teamed up with Santa to power his Naughty/Nice list using Hybrid Search Gen AI. Track Santa, chat with the North Pole, analyze deliveries, and moreβ€”all powered by @LuceniaIO! πŸŽ„βœ¨ lucenia.io/post/the-ultimate… #SantaTech #Lucenia

22 Dec 2024
πŸŽ… What if holidays inspired real-world innovation?Lucenia’s Santa Tracker showcases: ✨ Hybrid Search ✨ Retrieval Augmented Generative AI ✨ Real-Time Data from NORAD Explore: lucenia.io/post/the-ultimate… #SantaTracker #AIInnovation #HybridSearch #ChristmasTech #search #RAG
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0.3.0 GA of @LuceniaIO brings full EPSG spatial projection support, faster & fully unified ingest & search pipelines, simple migrations, and hybrid cloud backed indexes. Just wait for our #GenAI Christmas announcement! We're moving fast, and have barely started. #search #AI
16 Dec 2024
πŸš€ Lucenia v0.3.0 is here! πŸŽ‰ lucenia.io/post/lucenia-0-3 New features: πŸ’» Developer Licenses πŸ¦‹Seamless OpenSearch migration ☁️ Multi-cloud repo support ⚑ Faster pipelines πŸ”„ Spatial Reprojection Learn more: #Lucenia #OpenSource #TechUpdates #tech #search
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It's a bad sign when you require ~2 years for the biggest architectural change in years and you're still behind @LuceniaIO. Come join a company that listens to its customers & actually delivers "search more with less" starting w/ 40% savings . lucenia.io/post/cloud-native…

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The signal speaks for itself. 5 days, 1 dev and we were upgraded to Lucene 10. 2 days later and we were first to market. @lucenia is moving at lightning speed. Reach out if you're interested in joining. No RTO policy here - fully remote. πŸ˜‰ Lots of disruption coming.
A few days effort & @LuceniaIO is ready w/ Lucene 10. Big thanks to the RMs for their efforts. While this release brings useful incremental improvements for Pojo vector w/ SIMD, our native hybrid vector search shines brighter, delivering significant performance gains. #opensource
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Nick Knize 🌐 retweeted
22 Nov 2024
Want to make your cloud docs searchable? πŸ”In our new blog, CTO @nknize shows how Lucenia turns PDFs, Word docs, & more into a powerful, searchable database. πŸ‘‰ lucenia.io/post/storage-to-s… #SearchTech #CloudStorage #Lucenia #cloud #Technology #TechInnovation #Technews

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Unconventional? IMHO, this is just good leadership 101. I've never liked 1:1s. A quick check in is good, but the ROI for a recurring 1:1 is what, 0.01% at best? Seek to maximize your clock's ROI. I will forever be a student of this skill. fortune.com/2024/11/12/jense…
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I tried @netflix support run book. Still not working! #NetflixFight #TysonPaul
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