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Founder and CEO of @spice_ai

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Battle-tested in production at scale, Spice has reached the 1.0-stable milestone!

🎉 After 47 releases, Spice.ai OSS is production ready with the 1.0-stable milestone! Already deployed at enterprises like Twilio, Barracuda, and NRC Health, Spice accelerates data access for mission-critical workloads and mitigates AI hallucinations.

spice_ai's tweet image. 🎉 After 47 releases, Spice.ai OSS is production ready with the 1.0-stable milestone!

Already deployed at enterprises like Twilio, Barracuda, and NRC Health, Spice accelerates data access for mission-critical workloads and mitigates AI hallucinations.


Who’s going to reInvent? Want to meet up?

⚡Spice Lightning Talk at @AWSreInvent! Spice Founder & CEO @lukekim will join John Mallory of @awscloud for 'How Spice AI operationalizes data lakes for AI using Amazon S3.' More info 👉 hubs.ly/Q03VHw6R0 S3 Vectors + Spice Blog 👉 hubs.ly/Q03VHsb00 #AWSreInvent

spice_ai's tweet image. ⚡Spice Lightning Talk at @AWSreInvent!

Spice Founder & CEO @lukekim will join John Mallory of @awscloud for 'How Spice AI operationalizes data lakes for AI using Amazon S3.'

More info 👉 hubs.ly/Q03VHw6R0
S3 Vectors + Spice Blog 👉 hubs.ly/Q03VHsb00

#AWSreInvent


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Folks, know this - There's NO replacement for an experience of building and scaling systems on PRODUCTION. When I interview candidates, many have 10+ years of experience. But very few have actually built something that is used by real users in production. Fewer still, have stuck…



Even the smartest people in the world will be defeated by an expense reporting system


Completely agree which is why Spice (a set of building blocks) is Apache 2.0 licensed. github.com/spiceai/spiceai

Seems like a good time to re-share this post. Building Blocks Should Be Free cased.com/blog/2025-06-1…

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Building Blocks Should Be Free

cased.com/blog/2025-06-1…


14 years on Twiter/X... oh I feel old

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Research that went into vortex.dev

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An incredible amount of work went into Spice v1.9 and we're super excited to finally share it with you. Spice v1.9 introduces Spice Cayenne, a new data accelerator built on Vortex, the next-generation columnar file-format. For SQL query and search acceleration, it beats all our…

Spice v1.9.0 is live! 📣 • Introducing Spice Cayenne🌶️, our new premier data accelerator for performance and scale • Multi-Node Distributed Query • Apache DataFusion v50 & DuckDB v1.4.2 • Search & HTTP Data Connector upgrades Full release notes: hubs.ly/Q03Vgjkr0

spice_ai's tweet image. Spice v1.9.0 is live! 📣

• Introducing Spice Cayenne🌶️, our new premier data accelerator for performance and scale
• Multi-Node Distributed Query 
• Apache DataFusion v50 & DuckDB v1.4.2 
• Search & HTTP Data Connector upgrades

Full release notes: hubs.ly/Q03Vgjkr0
spice_ai's tweet image. Spice v1.9.0 is live! 📣

• Introducing Spice Cayenne🌶️, our new premier data accelerator for performance and scale
• Multi-Node Distributed Query 
• Apache DataFusion v50 & DuckDB v1.4.2 
• Search & HTTP Data Connector upgrades

Full release notes: hubs.ly/Q03Vgjkr0
spice_ai's tweet image. Spice v1.9.0 is live! 📣

• Introducing Spice Cayenne🌶️, our new premier data accelerator for performance and scale
• Multi-Node Distributed Query 
• Apache DataFusion v50 & DuckDB v1.4.2 
• Search & HTTP Data Connector upgrades

Full release notes: hubs.ly/Q03Vgjkr0


It’s crazy that it’s 2x GPT 5.1 which was just released. Pace is nuts

Grok 4.1 Fast with reasoning just beat Gemini 3!

elonmusk's tweet image. Grok 4.1 Fast with reasoning just beat Gemini 3!


I just got @lukekim from the X Handle Marketplace!

lukekim's tweet image. I just got @lukekim from the X Handle Marketplace!

Thank you, @github - very helpful

lukekim's tweet image. Thank you, @github - very helpful

Luke Kim reposted

GitHub has been down in some shape or form every single week for the past 10 weeks. This is a major blocker to productivity, it's really not spoken about enough... I think it has just been normalized by everyone.


Accidently picked up my old iPhone and didn't even notice it wasn't my new one for several hours later


TPC-H under 2 secs. We have a new accelerator winner in @spice_ai

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Already did

| ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| | Don't Push To Production On Friday | |_________________| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_



Variant 🔥

new version of Rust @ApacheArrow and @ApacheParquet is out -- includes new new metadata parser, new avro reader, geometry and variant support 🤯 arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/10/3…



Business as usual as a Rust dev

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Database world is always interesting! Technical and otherwise!

lukekim's tweet image. Database world is always interesting! Technical and otherwise!

Spice gets even faster in v1.8.3 - Faster SQL query, @duckdb optimizations, & parameterized queries - New dedicated/isolated thread pools - Automated capture of EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE on slow queries Check it out at spiceai.org/blog We also have a huge amount of…

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Thanks, @andrewlamb1111! @spice_ai uses and contributes to iceberg-rust. Our CTO @leblancphill has left our thoughts to moving the project forward.

I have heard from 3 people/projects in the last three days they are considering forks of iceberg-rust. I filed a ticket to see if we can figure out how to consolidate efforts: github.com/apache/iceberg…

andrewlamb1111's tweet image. I have heard from 3 people/projects in the last three days they are considering forks of iceberg-rust. I filed a ticket to see if we can figure out how to consolidate efforts: github.com/apache/iceberg…


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