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A release candidate (RC) just came out for Valkey. You’ve likely heard of the term before but do you know what it really means, especially in terms of Valkey? And do you know if you should care about this release? If any of those questions pique your interest, read on.
Before pulling apart the specific reasons to use a release candidate, it’s important to talk about generally available (G [...]
In the previous guide, a robust Primary-Replica topology for Valkey was established. Read scaling is now active, and a hot copy of the data is securely stored on a second node. But there is a catch. If a primary node crashes, the replica will remain faithful and wait for instructions. It will not automatically take … Continued
The post Achieving High Availability with Valkey Sentine [...]
In the recent open-source data landscape, Valkey has emerged as a prominent player. Born as a Linux Foundation-backed, fully open-source fork of Redis (following Redis’s recent licensing changes), Valkey serves as a high-performance, in-memory key-value data store. Whether Valkey is deployed as a primary database, an ephemeral cache, or a rapid message broker, a single … Continued
The Laravel community gathered in Ahmedabad, India, on January 31–February 1, 2026, for Laracon India one of the most anticipated PHP conferences in the region.
Valkey was proud to participate as a sponsor, connecting with 900 attendees passionate about building fast, scalable, and modern web applications on open source foundations.
For those who couldn't attend in person, you can [...]
We're getting close to conference season again; I'll be at the NY and LA AWS summits, as well as FinOps X. What're you folks going to be attending this summer? Hit reply and let me know.
If you (well, not you, but probably the saddest looking person on your finance team) are tracking commitments in spreadsheets and hoping your discount strategy still makes sense, you're not alone. Most te [...]
The telecommunications industry is facing growing trust challenges as communication networks become targets for increasingly sophisticated fraud.
On February 14-15, 2026, 371 students and 15 teams came together at HackNC State 2026 to tackle this challenge within 24 hours. The Valkey project, under The Linux Foundation, invited the participants to compete in an API challenge choosing from [...]
Pipelining and transactions are two important features in Redis and Valkey. Both involve sending multiple commands together. But they solve completely different problems, make completely different guarantees, and combining them incorrectly is one of the most common sources of subtle bugs in production systems. In this post we’ll unpack both from first principles, look at … Continued< [...]
Madelyn Olson discusses the evolution of Valkey's data structures, moving away from "textbook" pointer-chasing HashMaps to more cache-aware designs. She explains the implementation of "Swedish" tables to maximize memory density. She shares insights on systems intuition, memory prefetching, and the rigorous testing needed for mission-critical caches.
By Madelyn Olson [...]With the winter months winding down, it's a fitting time to introduce the general availability of Spring Data Valkey, a new open source Spring Data module that provides first-class integration between Valkey and the Spring ecosystem. Valkey adoption has expanded rapidly across cloud providers, Linux distributions, and enterprise environments. As organizations standardize on Valkey for caching, s [...]
Valkey is protocol-compatible with Redis and supports the full Redis 7.2.4 command API. That's one of its greatest strengths - existing clients are largely compatible, the learning curve is not steep. It's also, quietly, a problem for tooling.
Because compatibility means every tool built before Valkey existed technically "works" with it - tools that haven't been updated to take advantage [...]
The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports automatically caching JDBC queries with Valkey, including Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey caches. Previously, developers who needed to cache JDBC query result sets had to manually write code to store and retrieve data from the cache for each query. Now you can automatically cache result sets from your Aurora and RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB database [...]
Rate limiting is one of those topics that looks simple until you’re actually doing it in production. Implement a counter with the INCR command and a TTL and away you go. But when you ask questions like “what happens at the boundary?”, “should I use a Valkey/Redis cluster?”, or “why are we getting twice the … Continued
The post Rate Limiting Strate [...]
We’ve added support for Valkey 9.0, a major release focused on high-scale performance and more granular data control. This version is particularly beneficial for users running large-scale clusters or complex data structures.
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We are introducing multi-version support for Aiven for Valkey™. You can now choose between the two latest upstream Valkey versions when creating or upgrading your services. This flexibility is available for both standalone and clustered modes, allowing you to test new features or maintain environment stability on your own schedule.
For more details and upgrade instructions, see our documen [...]
Valkey Search now lets you search across text, tag, numeric, and vector attributes in a single query, and analyze results with server-side aggregations at the low latency you expect from Valkey. Valkey Search enables searching terabytes of data with latency as low as microseconds, providing a flexible foundation for querying across a range of use cases, from powering in-app search experiences to [...]
Do you ever wonder why we still manage Valkey the same way we always have? The honest answer is that it works. And once something works, it tends to stick around.
You spin up a Valkey cluster. Maybe it's three nodes. Maybe it's thirty. You need to inspect a key, so you open a terminal, start valkey-cli, connect, run a command, read the output, then do it again. If you need to
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Engineers operating large-scale systems face a consistent challenge: what works at moderate scale often breaks in subtle ways as systems grow. Recently, contributors and platform teams gathered at the Unlocked Conference to compare notes on what actually happens when Valkey is under real production load.
What follows are high-level observations from the day — directional insights that kep [...]
This release improves PrivateLink management with enhanced GCP PrivateLink connection approval through the new psc_connection_id field in aiven_gcp_privatelink_connection_approval. It lets you select specific connections when multiple PSC connections exist for the same service. Additionally, privatelink_connection_id support has been added across all servic
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In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and a Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB. The conversation covers how Valkey started as an open source fork of Redis and how the maintainers optimized the memory usage and improved throughput.
By Madelyn Olson [...]Valkey is moving fast and the easiest way to stay ahead is to subscribe to the official Valkey newsletter. From new releases and roadmap milestones to community highlights and upcoming events, our newsletter is your single source of truth for everything happening across the Valkey ecosystem. No digging, no second-guessing — just the updates that matter, delivered straight to you.
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As we kick off 2026, it’s a great moment to pause, reflect, and celebrate what the Valkey project and its community has accomplished together. This past year marked an important chapter for Valkey, one defined by growth, collaboration, and a shared commitment to building an open, high-performance key-value store for everyone.
2025 Key MilestonesThis past year brought meaningful progress [...]
This release introduces significant updates including Kubernetes v0.28 support. The operator now requires Go 1.20+.
A major change in this version is the complete removal of the Redis kind and controller from the operator, as Redis has reached end of life. Use Valkey instead for all caching services.
Key enhancements in this release include:
Tail latencies are where promises break. You can have a system that's fast 99% of the time, but that 1% is what users remember.
The post Large Objects Ruin the Party – Valkey 9 Tames Them appeared first on Momento.
[...]When HashiCorp changed the licenses of Terraform and many of its other products from open source MPL 2.0 to the
The post Forks, Clouds and the New Economics of Open Source Licensing appeared first on The New Stack.
[...]Database support provider is donating a database management tool for Kubernetes environments to the . For Kubernetes environs, the newly
The post OpenEverest, a Tool To Manage Multiple Databases on Kubernetes appeared first on The New Stack.
[...]Last year, Bitnami changed how it publishes and supports many container images and Helm charts (see charts issue #35164, charts issue #36215, and the Bitnami Secure Images announcement). Some images move behind new terms, and older tags may not be available as before.
If your pipelines pull Bitnami charts or images during deploys, you may experience significant operational issues: rollout [...]
Discover how the Valkey team recognized the need for a fork, exploring their strategic decisions and the impact on the project's future.
The post How the Team Behind Valkey Knew It Was Time to Fork appeared first on Linux Today.
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