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Scaling Search and Retrieval for Contextual AI
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Scaling Search and Retrieval for Contextual AI

by Nicholas Knize
June 2027
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
10h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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About the Author

Nicholas Knize is a leading authority in search and retrieval systems and the founder and CEO of Lucenia, which provides cost-effective hybrid search solutions that cut cloud costs by over 40% and prevent vendor lock-in. A former principal engineer for Amazon Search Services, he created AWS OpenSearch. As the geospatial lead at Elastic, he was a key contributor to Elasticsearch and a Lucene Committer and PMC member. He also served as chief scientist at Thermopylae Sciences and Technology, where he invented XTree Hyperspatial indexing.

With seven patents and a trade secret to his name, Nicolas has been honored with multiple accolades, including the Corporate Excellence in Engineering Technology Individual Award. His work spans from his professional career to personal projects like SocialEyez TV for Google TV 2.0. His expertise includes spatial indexing, distributed computing, and mobile technologies, highlighting his deep impact on modern data systems.

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