🎤 Built something interesting with Valkey?
Share it with the Valkey community at Unlocked Conf.
Bring real-world lessons, performance insights, or scaling stories. This is your chance to engage and build the community!
Submit here: www.unlockedconf.io/call-for-spe...
#Valkey #OpenSource
🐧 Valkey will be at SCaLE 23x in Pasadena next week!
Swing by the Valkey booth for some swag, community chats, and Valkey demos, too.
www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
#Valkey #OpenSource #TechCommunity #DevOps
🎯 As the industry trends toward compression and efficiency, small memory improvements matter.
Madelyn Olson previews a Valkey 9.1 change that removes 8 bytes of overhead per small key-value pair—relieving ~20% memory overhead.
Watch the full talk:
youtu.be/9HogcUcV7_0?...
#Valkey #OpenSource
Introducing Valkey Admin-Visual Cluster Management for Valkey with a dashboard snapshot.
🖥️ Managing a Valkey cluster shouldn’t require three terminals and a whiteboard sketch.
Introducing Valkey Admin: a visual way to understand and operate Valkey clusters without the terminal juggling.
Learn more: valkey.io/blog/introdu...
#Valkey #OpenSource #DeveloperTools #SRE
Operational Lessons from Large-Scale Valkey Deployments
📈 “Scale exposes all truths.”
That’s the reality for teams running Valkey at large scale—where tail latency, payload shape, and traffic patterns start to matter more than peak numbers.
Read more from Allen Helton and Mike Callahan:
valkey.io/blog/operati...
#Valkey #DistributedSystems #SRE
Two students working over their laptops at a table
Three students share a table, celebrating with a thumbs up and arms raised
Five students share center stage, while four of them hold up their awards
A packed event room with students filling seats around tables
Still feeling the energy from Hack_NCState ⚡
Late-night builds, collaborative problem-solving, and strong demo day momentum from the Valkey API Integration Challenge.
More moments below 👇
#Hackathon #OpenSource #Valkey
Four Data Infrastructure Shifts to Consider in 2026
💡 What’s next for data infrastructure in 2026?
Madelyn Olson shares four trends—focusing on efficiency, durability, consolidation, and the growing importance of data management as a discipline.
Read the full breakdown:
vmblog.com/archive/2026...
#Valkey #OpenSource
In the news: Valkey 9.0 – open-source velocity and the pursuit of real-time resilience
🧩 Real-time resilience isn’t about one big feature—it’s about removing friction, piece by piece.
Diginomica’s look at Valkey 9.0 shows how consistent, community-led engineering is simplifying scalability and recovery in distributed systems.
Read more: diginomica.com/valkey-90-op...
#Valkey #OSS
Challenge accepted! 🫡 Can you write your first rust #Valkey module under 2 hours? Share your experience in the comments!
See the full talk here with Khawaja Shams and Dmitry P.: full episode at www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SyV...
#Valkeycommunity #rustmodule #API
🏆 Team Catphish won the Valkey API Integration Challenge at HackNC State!
371 participants. 15 teams. One weekend packed with creativity, collaboration, and serious building energy.
Proud to have #Valkey supporting builders who show up, ship fast, and share what they learn.
KCD Guadalajara Valkey on Kubernetes: High-performance, low-latency deployments for scalable clusters with Roberto Luna Rojas
☸️ Valkey will be at KCD Guadalajara!
Roberto Luna Rojas is talking about deploying Valkey on Kubernetes—covering high-throughput, low-latency, and scalability.
Session info:
kcd-guadalajara-2026.sessionize.com/session/1104...
#Valkey #OpenSource #Kubernetes
💫 We’re excited to sponsor Hack NC State 2026!
Join us Feb 14 – Feb 15 for a 24-hour hackathon at NC State. Take on the API Integration Challenge with your team of 3–4 and put your skills to the test. Also, come visit us at the Valkey booth for exclusive SWAG!
More info here: hackncstate.org
Valkey 9.0 Adds Multi-Database Clusters, Supports 1 Billion Requests Per Second
🕡 Downtime during scaling is a pain point for distributed databases.
It's FOSS dives into Valkey 9.0, seeing how features like atomic slot migration and multi-database clusters are boosting performance—plus insights on where Valkey is headed.
news.itsfoss.com/valkey-9-rel...
#Valkey #OpenSource
🎉 The Valkey newsletter is live!
A new way to follow project updates, releases, and community news—straight from the Valkey project.
Subscribe here:
valkey.io/blog/valkey-...
#Valkey #OpenSource
Thomas Betts talks with Madelyn Olson, #Valkey maintainer & Principal SDE at Amazon ElastiCache/MemoryDB, about what Valkey is, its origins, and how it improved memory usage and throughput.
🎧 www.infoq.com/podcasts/val...
#OpenSource #Redis #AWS
🌐 Curious how Valkey 9.0 scales to large, resilient clusters?
This talk walks through Valkey clustering—how it works, how it handles faults, and how recent improvements support scale in practice.
youtu.be/P6Cb0diRzdE?...
#Valkey #OpenSource
Valkey’s community showed up strong at Laracon India! We ran a great demo on how to use hashtag#Valkey with Laravel for cache, session, queues and handed out some fun swag 🙌🎉
#LaraconIndia #Laravel #Valkeycommunity
🎉 Heading to Laracon India on 31 January - 1 February, 2026? Stop by our booth to learn how to use Valkey with Laravel for cache, session, queues 🚀💾… we’ll have a live demo and swag waiting for you!
Event details here ➡️ laracon.in
#Valkey #ValkeyCommunity #OpenSource
Latest Update to Open Source Valkey Database Improves Performance at Lower Total Cost
No downtime shouldn’t be a nice-to-have.
Valkey 9.0 delivers atomic slot migration, better memory efficiency, and performance gains for in-memory workloads.
Read more: techstrong.it/featured/lat...
#Valkey #OpenSource
Take a look at "What’s New in Valkey 9?" to see our journey from 8.0 to 9.0 and all that went into it.
It highlights efficiency gains, higher throughput, and features that improve scalability and reliability in distributed clusters.
Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoKf...
#Valkey #OpenSource
📸 Photo booth fun at the Unlocked Conference!
Behind the scenes looked just as good as the sessions. 😄
#Momento #UnlockedConference #Valkeycommunity
Valkey 2025 Year-End Review: Reflecting on Progress and Looking Ahead
🗓️ Take a look back at 2025 with us and revisit the milestones we achieved from this past year. We did it all—from major releases to hosting Keyspace Amsterdam.
Read the recap:
valkey.io/blog/2025-ye...
#Valkey #OpenSource
In the news: Valkey 9.0 Offers Performance and Resiliency for Real-Time Workloads
DBTA covers Valkey 9.0 going GA, highlighting new features for performance and resiliency in real-time workloads.
With reported gains of up to 40% higher throughput compared to previous versions, 9.0 is a big milestone.
Read more: www.dbta.com/Editorial/Ne...
#Valkey #CloudNative
⚡ Valkey talks at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU on March 26th!
➡️ 11:00–11:30 CET: Scaling Valkey at XL scale – AWS’s Sarthak Aggarwal & Madelyn Olson kccnceu2026.sched.com/event/2CW5d/...
➡️ 11:45–12:15 CET: Redis on EC2 to Valkey on Kubernetes – Joseph D. Heyburn kccnceu2026.sched.com/event/2CW6D/...
📰 Check out what The New Stack had to say about Valkey 9.0!
The article highlights multidatabase clustering, atomic slot migration, and ⚡ major performance optimizations showing how Valkey handles massive-scale workloads of 1B+ requests/sec.
🔗 thenewstack.io/valkey-9-0-d...
#Valkey #OpenSource
🎉 Don’t miss out! The Unlocked Conference hits Jan 22 in San Jose, CA! #Valkey sessions you’ll love:
- Valkey in production
- Performance improvements in Valkey 9.0
🔥 Special deal: Register for just $99 with code LF99 (normally $200)!
✨ Spots are limited unlocked.gomomento.com/events/unloc...
🚀 New blog: Valkey Helm: The new way to deploy Valkey on Kubernetes
Avoid deployment surprises caused by third-party chart changes. The official, project-maintained #Valkey Helm chart gives you control over versions, upgrades, security, and scaling.
👉 valkey.io/blog/valkey-...
🚀 Resharding made simple with Valkey 9.0!
🔗 Learn how it works: valkey.io/blog/atomic-...
#Valkey #DistributedDatabase #DevOps #HighPerformance
✨ KEYSPACE 2025 · Beijing Recap ✨
We had an amazing time with our Valkey community. 👏 Special congratulations to Binbin Zhu (Tencent Cloud) and Zhao (Alibaba), both Valkey TSC members, who received Certificates of Recognition.
#KESPACE2025 #Beijing #Valkey #OpenSource #Community #TechEvents
ICYMI! Have you seen the latest Valkey 9.0 Release?
📖 Read the blog here ➡️ valkey.io/blog/introdu...
👉Press Release: www.linuxfoundation.org/press/valkey...
👉Download: valkey.io/download/
#Valkey #OpenSource #LinuxFoundation #Database
