Planet for the Valkey Community

Aiven for Valkey™ 9.1 is here

2026-07-17T09:30:00+00:00

We’ve added support for Valkey 9.1, a release focused on new features and improvements for security, observability, performance, efficiency, and tooling.

Key highlights

Security: database-level ACLs, Lua moved to a module, TLS improvements
Observability: main/IO thread usage metrics, JSON logging
Performance: new IO threading model, faster streams/sorted sets/GET [...]

Linux creator Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to walk away from Linux, or go fork it

2026-07-16T15:15:14+00:00

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Creator of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds, has refreshed his stance on the use of AI in software development with

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Caching up with the Community: Deep Dive with Percona’s Kyle Davis

2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

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Standard industry software consistently grows heavier, consuming more RAM with every minor update. Valkey reverses this trend entirely: upcoming engineering milestones drop the software's structural footprint, meaning a simple binary upg [...]

Security updates for Friday

2026-07-03T13:03:41+00:00

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, bind9.18, evince, fence-agents, freerdp, frr, frr10, gimp, gnutls, hplip, jmc, mariadb:11.8, mysql:8.4, php:7.4, postgresql-jdbc, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, valkey, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (fastnetmon), Fedora (7zip, apptainer, cpp-httplib, mysql8.4, and nmap), Oracle (freerdp, giflib, glib2, glibc, kerne [...]

Right Size Your Model Usage with Valkey and Semantic Routing

2026-07-02T12:52:17+00:00

Route easy prompts to cheap models, hard ones to frontier using vector search and a Valkey instance you might already be using for caching. [...]

Stop Request Stampedes at the Gateway with Platformatic Deduplication

2026-06-30T14:38:38+00:00

Picture an online store launching a new product and sending out a mailing list campaign. Thousands of users click the same link at once. The product page, built with a Node.js app like Next.js, needs [...]

ValkeyConf: The Valkey Community Comes to Prague

2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Introducing ValkeyConf. On October 5, 2026, the Valkey community will gather in Prague, Czechia, for its inaugural flagship event, held alongside Open Source Summit Europe and organized by the Linux Foundation.

From Keyspace in Amsterdam and Beijing to Valkey Unlocked, this community has shown up every time we've put something together. ValkeyConf is the next chapter. Since the p [...]

Announcing Valkey 9.1 for Amazon ElastiCache

2026-06-29T21:10:32+00:00

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1, bringing the latest community-driven innovations from the Valkey open source project to customers running latency-sensitive, high-throughput, and operationally demanding in-memory workloads on ElastiCache. In this post, we discuss how Valkey 9.1 helps you get more throughput and memory efficiency from demanding workloads while providing stronger isolation [...]

How Securonix reduced cache costs by 20% with Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey

2026-06-29T17:20:38+00:00

In this post, we share how Securonix migrated hundreds of Amazon ElastiCache clusters from Redis OSS to Valkey, achieving a 20% reduction in caching costs. This amounts to over $100,000 in annualized savings. The migration also improved CPU utilization and overall throughput across Securonix’s global SIEM platform, which processes hundreds of terabyte data volumes daily for enterprise security team [...]

Security updates for Monday

2026-06-29T13:16:41+00:00

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (containernetworking-plugins, golang, kernel, libpng, libpng15, nginx, opencryptoki, perl-IO-Compress, thunderbird, and tigervnc), Debian (chromium, gdcm, incus, libhtml-parser-perl, lxd, openvpn, tor, and xorg-server), Fedora (chromium, docker-buildkit, docker-buildx, dotnet10.0, dotnet8.0, dotnet9.0, krita, ldns, libssh2, liferea, lighttpd, mariadb10 [...]

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1

2026-06-23T17:38:00+00:00

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1 for node-based clusters, delivering higher throughput, improved memory efficiency, and stronger access control for multi-tenant workloads. This release helps customers get more performance from existing infrastructure while simplifying common application patterns with new commands.

Valkey 9.1 includes a redesigned I/O threading model that improv [...]

Valkey 9.1 In-Memory Data Store Released with Database-Level ACLs

2026-06-23T14:48:16+00:00

Explore Valkey 9.1, the latest In-Memory Data Store, now with advanced database-level ACLs. Enhance your data security and streamline access control effortlessly.

The post Valkey 9.1 In-Memory Data Store Released with Database-Level ACLs appeared first on Linux Today.

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Aiven for Valkey™ now available on the Developer tier

2026-06-22T07:25:00+00:00

Aiven now offers the Developer tier for Aiven for Valkey™: a cost-effective, paid service tier designed for development, testing, and production workloads that do not yet require Professional-tier scale.

Compared to the Free or Hobbyist plans, the Developer plan offers increased CPU and RAM per VM. Additionally, unlike the Free plan, Developer-tier services are not automatically powered of [...]

Backporting bug fixes is dead, Project Valkey now sends in the bots

2026-06-20T14:21:00+00:00

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When Project Valkey released version 9.1 last month, users, contributors and maintainers alike were understandably excited: There were new functionalities

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Sunsetting Aiven for Dragonfly

2026-06-17T11:27:00+00:00

What's happening

Aiven for Dragonfly is being discontinued on the Aiven Platform:

End of availability (EOA): After 17 June 2026, you can no longer create new services. Existing services will continue to operate until the end of life (EOL) date, but you will not be able to change service plans.
End of life (EOL): On 30 September 2026, all active services will be deco [...]

🛠️ Hands-On NoSQL Tutorials & Practical Configurations

2026-06-16T19:38:15+00:00

Redis University & Valkey Community Guides: A collection of structured patterns, tutorial sheets, and implementation scripts designed to teach high-performance in-memory key-value data modeling, caching strategies, and data structure manipulation.👉 Valkey / Redis Quickstart Guides... [...]

🌟Free & Open-Source In-Memory Databases

2026-06-16T17:57:32+00:00

Valkey: The primary, community-driven open-source successor to Redis. Backed by the Linux Foundation and major tech companies (like AWS, Google, and Oracle), it is fully free under the BSD license and serves as a... [...]

🗄️ Free & Open-Source NoSQL Software

2026-06-16T17:54:08+00:00

Key-Value & In-Memory Stores Document Stores Wide-Column Stores Research NoSQL Database Projects on GitHub SurrealDB: An innovative multi-model cloud-native database. It acts as a document, graph, and relational database all in one engine, optimized... [...]

Security updates for Monday

2026-06-15T13:04:38+00:00

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 9.0), Debian (apache2, chromium, jpeg-xl, librabbitmq, and openssl), Fedora (apptainer, bind9-next, chezmoi, chromium, collectd, composer, dnsdist, gh, python-django5, python-python-multipart, varnish, varnish-modules, vmod-querystring, vmod-uuid, weasyprint, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (cups, expat, libpng, libssh, memcached, nghttp2, [...]

AWS Introduces Durable Storage Option for ElastiCache for Valkey

2026-06-14T05:13:00+00:00

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AWS has recently introduced durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, enabling reliable data retention across failures and expanding support beyond caching to persistent workloads. The feature offers new options that prioritize either minimizing data loss or maintaining lower write latency, expanding the range of use cases supported by the Redis fork.

By Renato Losio [...]

Unlocked Seattle: The Best Systems Let You Sleep At Night

2026-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

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The best systems are often the boring ones. Boring because they continue working predictably when traffic spikes, dependencies drift, workloads evolve, or failures start cascading across systems at 3AM.

That idea was constant at Unlocked Conference in Seattle.

More than 140 engineers representing over 50 companies gathered at T-Mobile Park for a full day of 20 technical ta [...]

Managing Connection Storms in Valkey at Scale

2026-06-10T00:00:00+00:00

The alerts are firing. Users cannot complete requests. The cache dashboard shows CPU normal, memory normal, hit rate normal, p99 within SLA. The Valkey node metrics are all green. The cluster topology has not changed. Yet the application is still failing.

This is one of the more disorienting situations in distributed systems. The component everyone assumes is the culprit is behaving perfe [...]

Index your Valkey Cache and Start Searching

2026-06-09T20:12:16+00:00

The Valkey Search module allows you to leverage strong full-text and vector search based on your existing cached data. [...]

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports idle recommendations for six additional resource types

2026-06-08T21:00:00+00:00

AWS Compute Optimizer now identifies idle resources for Amazon DynamoDB provisioned tables, Amazon ElastiCache (Redis and Valkey), Amazon MemoryDB, Amazon DocumentDB (provisioned and serverless), Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon SageMaker endpoints. This expansion enables you to detect unused resources across more of your AWS environment and identify potential cost savings.

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Stop hitting the database for things that aren't there: Use a Valkey Bloom Filter

2026-06-08T12:24:45+00:00

Every time your app asks the database 'does this row exist,' it pays the cost of a database query to get back 'no'. [...]

Presentation: Beyond Speed Limits: Exploring the Performance Power of Valkey

2026-06-08T10:15:00+00:00

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Senior Solution Architect Viktor Vedmich shares how engineering leaders can maximize application performance using Valkey. He discusses the open-source Redis fork's 100% API compatibility, explores advanced caching strategies like lazy loading, and explains how to implement powerful data structures for real-time analytics, rate limiting, and session stores to solve the thundering herd problem.< [...]

Valkey™ Bloom module now available on Aiven for Valkey

2026-06-05T11:48:00+00:00

What's new

The Valkey Bloom module is now available on Aiven for Valkey services running Valkey 9 and later. It adds a probabilistic Bloom filter data type that lets you test set membership using very little memory. A Bloom filter can tell you that an element is possibly in a set or definitely not in a set, which makes it well suited to high-traffic use cases such as preventing cache [...]

Valkey™ Search module now available on Aiven for Valkey

2026-06-05T09:45:00+00:00

What's new

The Valkey Search module is now available on Aiven for Valkey services running Valkey 9 and later. It extends Valkey with a high-performance search engine that supports vector search, full-text search, and hybrid queries over data stored in Valkey Hash and Valkey JSON.

Key features

Vector search: Run Approximate Nearest Neighbor (HNSW) or exact K-Nearest Ne [...]

Amazon ElastiCache adds durability for Valkey

2026-06-03T06:30:14+00:00

AWS adds durability to ElastiCache for Valkey. The new feature enables the service to be used for workloads that cannot tolerate data loss. Two write modes offer flexibility: zero data loss with synchronous writes or microsecond latency with a limited risk of loss via asynchronous writes. Amazon ElastiCache serves hundreds of thousands of customers and […] [...]

Caching up with the Community: A Conversation with Daniela Miao on Valkey and Momento

2026-06-03T00:00:00+00:00

This segment features Daniela Miao, Co-founder and CTO of Momento, discussing her journey into open source, the technical advantages of building on Valkey, and how high-scale infrastructure supports some of the world's largest live events.

Tell us a little bit about yourself, what Momento does, and your journey through open source and infrastructure.

I’m the Co-founder and CTO of Momento, [...]

Announcing durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey

2026-06-02T16:01:06+00:00

In this post, we explain how durability works, walk through the architecture, and share performance results to show that durability doesn’t compromise the microsecond latency customers expect from ElastiCache. [...]

Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports durability

2026-06-02T15:00:00+00:00

Today, AWS announces durability support for Amazon ElastiCache. Durability enables you to use ElastiCache for workloads that require microsecond read latency but cannot tolerate data loss. With durability support, ElastiCache now stores data durably across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) using a Multi-AZ transactional log to enable fast failover, database recovery, and node restarts to prevent [...]

Percona Live 2026: AI Won’t ‘Kill’ DBAs, New Open Database Champions Will Rise

2026-05-29T13:51:14+00:00

Percona Live 2026 returned to Mountain View, California this month, bringing together database professionals, open source advocates, and practitioners for what the company describes as a no-nonsense, hands-on event. Held at the Computer History Museum (nice people, great museum, so-so conference center top section), the conference was initially anchored by a keynote from new Percona [...]

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Percona celebrates 20th birthday with new foundation — and a goat cake

2026-05-28T17:14:33+00:00

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Percona, which makes a popular open-source database-as-a-service (DBaaS), celebrated its 20th birthday this week with a rebrand, a new supporting

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Security updates for Thursday

2026-05-28T13:05:05+00:00

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, gdk-pixbuf2, glibc, gnutls, kernel, libexif, mysql8.4, postgresql16, postgresql18, python3.14, ruby:3.3, and ruby:4.0), Debian (krb5, roundcube, starlette, unbound, and varnish), Fedora (kernel, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-js-challenge, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, [...]

Valkey 9.1 ships with hybrid search, AI maintainer agents and a leaner engine

2026-05-28T09:26:20+00:00

Valkey project maintainer Madelyn Olson on the 9.1 release including hybrid search, AI maintainer agents and a 10% memory reduction. Plus a candid read on durability, SSD tiering and where the project sits next to a re-energized Redis. [...]

Real-time personalized recommendations with Amazon SageMaker and Valkey

2026-05-27T18:17:03+00:00

Amazon receives millions of visits every day, and earning each customer’s trust visit after visit is the foundation that the store is built on. A meaningful part of that trust comes down to whether the recommendations we surface feel relevant and whether they reflect what the customer actually cares about in the moment. In this post, we describe an architecture that makes it achievable. Amazon Sage [...]

Optimize costs in Amazon Aurora

2026-05-27T18:15:50+00:00

By implementing modern optimization techniques for Aurora, you can achieve additional cost reduction beyond traditional methods alone. This isn’t only about spending less—it’s about building a more efficient, scalable, and resilient database environment. In this post, we show you a structured approach to optimizing Amazon Aurora database costs. It outlines specific strategies, implementation steps, [...]

Introducing valkey-lab: Stop Guessing When Your Cache Hits Its Limit

2026-05-26T20:14:51+00:00

Benchmarking a cache should be about finding how much load your system can sustain before latency SLOs break. Introducing valkey-lab.

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Presentation: Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads

2026-05-26T09:08:00+00:00

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Joseph Stein discusses engineering an enterprise AI-as-a-Service platform within a private cloud data center. He explains how to maximize underutilized GPU pools via multi-namespace scheduling, leverage Valkey and Lua for atomic priority queuing and backpressure management, mitigate OWASP Top 10 LLM risks via central proxy gateways, and scale batch pipelines using a custom S3-to-Kafka proxy.

Why Snap Was Willing to Fork, and Why They Still Came Back

2026-05-21T19:36:05+00:00

Snap ran 100% of their caching infrastructure on KeyDB, a Redis fork they acquired in 2022. Two years later, they moved to Valkey. Here's why.

The post Why Snap Was Willing to Fork, and Why They Still Came Back appeared first on Momento.

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Why Snap Was Willing to Fork, and Why They Still Came Back

2026-05-21T19:36:05+00:00

Snap ran 100% of their caching infrastructure on KeyDB, a Redis fork they acquired in 2022. Two years later, they moved to Valkey. Here's why.

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Why Snap Was Willing to Fork, and Why They Still Came Back

2026-05-21T19:36:05+00:00

Snap ran 100% of their caching infrastructure on KeyDB, a Redis fork they acquired in 2022. Two years later, they moved to Valkey. Here's why.

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AI-Assisted Production Database Ops with ClusterControl MCP and CCX MCP

2026-05-21T10:22:01+00:00

In December, we introduced how Model Context Protocol could make ClusterControl easier to work with from AI assistants. Since then, Severalnines has expanded that MCP direction across its database operations platforms with ClusterControl MCP and CCX MCP. The latest ClusterControl MCP is the major update, providing a more robust implementation with 69 tools and 20 […]

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Valkey 9.1 Sharpens Performance and Security Controls

2026-05-20T21:51:26+00:00

Maintainers of the open source database Valkey announced Valkey 9.1 this week at Open Source Summit North America in Minneapolis. Now generally available, the latest release adds security and observability features, performance upgrades and memory-efficiency improvements. On the security side, Valkey 9.1 adds database-level ACLs, allowing administrators to restrict users to specific numbered dat [...]

Valkey 9.1 Delivers More Performance & Enhanced Security

2026-05-20T10:04:57+00:00

Valkey 9.1 released on Tuesday as the latest version of this popular fork of the Redis in-memory, key-value database... [...]

Manually Migrate Hash Slots in a Valkey/Redis Cluster

2026-05-20T02:45:07+00:00

This article explains how to manually migrate hash slots in Valkey/Redis clusters to expand your deployment with minimal disruption to availability. Note: Valkey 9.0 introduces the Atomic Slot Migration (ASM) feature, which significantly improves migration speed (up to 9.52 times faster) and reliability, while reducing migration complexity. So you should use ASM instead if you … Continued< [...]

Valkey Enhances Efficiency, Security, and Modular Performance with 9.1 Release and New Ecosystem Integrations

2026-05-19T17:00:00+00:00

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Nine Entertainment’s journey: Achieving 98% cost savings with Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey

2026-05-19T15:59:19+00:00

In this post we demonstrate how Nine Entertainment achieved a 98% cost reduction by migrating to Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey while improving scalability and eliminating manual intervention during peak events. [...]

Automated JDBC query caching with the AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper

2026-05-19T15:53:24+00:00

Today, we’re announcing the Remote Query Cache Plugin for the AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper. The plugin handles query caching automatically. It intercepts JDBC queries, caches results in Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, and serves subsequent identical queries from cache. Your only application change is prefixing queries with SQL hints. In this post, we show you how to use Amazon CloudWatch Database Insig [...]

Valkey 9.1 trims memory 10% and pulls search into the core

2026-05-19T15:14:16+00:00

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Valkey 9.1 is now generally available with a focus on improved efficiency, modularity, and ecosystem tooling for production workloads. At

The post Valkey 9.1 trims memory 10% and pulls search into the core appeared first on The New Stack.

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Valkey 9.1 delivers improvements in security, performance, and more

2026-05-19T00:00:00+00:00

The Valkey community is excited to announce version 9.1.0 This latest release includes new functionality and improvements for security, observability, performance, efficiency, and tooling from over eighty contributors. Let's take a look at a few of the highlights in this release.

Security

Release 9.1 strengthens Valkey's security capabilities with several important enhancements:

Nu [...]

Improving generative AI accuracy with vector and graph search hybrid queries

2026-05-18T16:03:10+00:00

In this post, we discuss the differences between vector search and graph search, how to combine the two for hybrid querying, and use cases that benefit from hybrid querying. [...]

Security updates for Monday

2026-05-18T12:59:35+00:00

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, gimp:2.8, jq, kernel, and rsync), Debian (chromium, ffmpeg, firewalld, kernel, nginx, openjpeg2, openssh, php7.4, and redis), Fedora (apptainer, chromium, coturn, dnsmasq, firefox, kernel, libgit2_1.8, libmetal, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-js-challenge, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxs [...]

How HotelTrader cut inter-AZ cost 95% and latency by 49% with Valkey GLIDE on Amazon ElastiCache

2026-05-13T19:50:39+00:00

In this post, you learn how HotelTrader reduced inter-availability zone data transfer costs by 95% and improved average latency by 49% by migrating from the Redis Lettuce client to Valkey GLIDE on Amazon ElastiCache. The post walks through how HotelTrader identified hidden cross-AZ data transfer costs in their multi-AZ ElastiCache cluster, implemented Valkey GLIDE's AZ-affinity read strategy to rou [...]

Introducing Valkey Admin 1.0: Visual Cluster Management for Valkey

2026-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

Valkey Admin is a new open source observability and management tool from the Valkey project that brings cluster visibility, data inspection, and troubleshooting into a single view. It ships as a native desktop application for macOS and Linux, and as a containerized web deployment on Docker and Kubernetes. Valkey Admin provides real-time cluster dashboards, topology visualization with per-node de [...]

Security updates for Monday

2026-05-11T13:10:02+00:00

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, freeipmi, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (corosync, firefox-esr, kernel, lcms2, libpng1.6, linux-6.1, php8.2, php8.4, postorius, pyjwt, and tor), Fedora (dotnet10.0, exim, gnutls, kernel, nextcloud, nodejs22, php, proftpd, prosody, python-pulp-glue, python-requests, rclone, and SDL3_image), Mageia (firefox, nss, rootcerts, openvpn, thunderbi [...]

Announcing Valkey 9.0 for Amazon ElastiCache

2026-05-07T15:34:15+00:00

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.0. This brings the latest community-driven innovations from the Valkey open source project to address the performance and capability requirements of applications as they grow more data-intensive and latency-sensitive, such as real-time analytics, AI-driven retrieval, and high-throughput caching. In this post, we explore how these enhancements help customers [...]

Full-text, exact-match, range, and hybrid search on Amazon ElastiCache

2026-05-07T15:32:37+00:00

New search capabilities are available in ElastiCache version 9.0 for Valkey. In this post, we walk through the new search capabilities, show how they work together, and build a search and recommendation engine from scratch. [...]

Announcing aggregations on Amazon ElastiCache

2026-05-07T15:30:56+00:00

Amazon ElastiCache now supports aggregation queries, so you can filter, group, transform, and summarize data directly in your cache with a single query. This post walks through the use cases that aggregations unlock, and shows how they work by building a faceted browsing engine using Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey. [...]

Valkey turns two

2026-05-07T15:29:56+00:00

Two years ago, Valkey emerged as a community-driven response to the need for a truly open, vendor-neutral alternative to Redis. In this post, we’ll look back at two years of progress, highlighting the rapid adoption of Valkey, the innovations delivered by the community, and what these developments mean for the future of modern caching and […] [...]

Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time aggregations

2026-05-06T19:00:00+00:00

Amazon ElastiCache now supports aggregation queries, making it easier to filter, group, transform, and summarize data directly in your cache with a single query. Developers can use aggregation queries to build real-time application experiences with latencies as low as microseconds over terabytes of data and results reflecting completed writes.

By running aggregations directly in-memory [...]

Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time hybrid search with vector and full-text

2026-05-06T19:00:00+00:00

Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time hybrid search that combines vector similarity with full-text search in a single query, without a separate search service. Applications can combine semantic meaning with exact keyword matching that captures both intent and precise terms to deliver more relevant results than either method alone. Customers can use ElastiCache to combine full-text and vector [...]

Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time full-text, exact-match, and numeric range search

2026-05-06T19:00:00+00:00

Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time full-text, exact-match, and numeric range search directly in your cache without a separate search service. Applications can use ElastiCache to search terabytes of data with latency as low as microseconds and throughput up to millions of search operations per second. Developers can combine any of these search types in a single query to power real-time, sc [...]

Aiven for Valkey™: Version 9 is now the default for new services

2026-05-06T09:53:00+00:00

We are excited to announce that Valkey 9 is now the default version for all new Aiven for Valkey™ services.

What this means for you:

New services: When creating a new Aiven for Valkey™ service, the platform will now automatically select version 9 as the default.
Existing services: Your currently running services on version 8.1 remain unaffected and will continue to opera [...]

Announcing Valkey 9.0 for Amazon ElastiCache

2026-05-05T22:33:00+00:00

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.0, bringing new capabilities to customers building real-time, AI-driven, and high-throughput applications on AWS. As applications grow more data-intensive and latency-sensitive, teams often face the overhead of managing separate search infrastructure, throughput ceilings that force over-provisioning, and complex workarounds for data lifecycle management a [...]

Amazon ElastiCache adds thirteen new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for network capacity planning and engine diagnostics

2026-05-05T18:00:00+00:00

Amazon ElastiCache customers can now detect network throttling, memory fragmentation, and connection exhaustion, using thirteen new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for node-based clusters. You can monitor these host-level and engine-level diagnostics directly from CloudWatch without running INFO commands on individual nodes or calculating baselines from raw byte counters.

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Reduce Token Cost for LLMs: AI Agent Memory with Valkey and Mem0

2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00

AI agent memory turns a stateless large language model (LLM) into an assistant that knows its users and delivers personalized, relevant responses. Implementing an agent memory layer can cut token cost by up to 90% and keep responses under 2 seconds (Mem0 benchmarks). Without memory, responses lose relevance, users repeat themselves, and token costs climb as raw history accumulates.

This p [...]

Managing Valkey Cluster in Kubernetes

2026-04-30T23:05:39+00:00

Over the last several years, Percona has introduced several rock-star Kubernetes Operators for managing MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. For Valkey, we are actively working with the community to contribute our knowledge, and experience to help brainstorm, develop, and test the official Valkey Operator for Kubernetes. While the Valkey Operator has not yet … Continued< [...]

Valkey-swift - Announcing 1.0 Release

2026-04-30T00:00:00+00:00

Last summer, we introduced the preview release of valkey-swift. This 1.0 release delivers a production-ready client with stable APIs that takes full advantage of all the modern features of Swift 6.

Introduction

Valkey-swift is a production-grade Swift client built with modern Swift features in mind. Using Valkey with Swift provides strongly typed APIs with clean semantics, memory-safety a [...]

Run Medusa on Kubernetes with Watt as a Monorepo

2026-04-28T14:30:00+00:00

Medusa stands out as a flexible open source commerce platform for Node.js. It offers teams a customizable backend, admin tools, and a modern storefront, all without locking you into a strict SaaS mode [...]

On release candidates

2026-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

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 [...]

Achieving High Availability with Valkey Sentinel

2026-04-24T04:03:16+00:00

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

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Scaling Your Cache: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up Valkey Replication

2026-04-23T16:46:27+00:00

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

Valkey Meets Laravel: Bridging Open Source Communities at Laracon India 2026

2026-04-23T01:01:01+00:00

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 [...]

Last Week in AWS – Issue #467

2026-04-22T23:54:27+00:00

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 [...]

AWS purpose-built database recovery: A guide to business continuity and disaster recovery strategies

2026-04-22T15:38:17+00:00

This post addresses recovery challenges in multi-database architectures, focusing on both low-consistency and mission-critical scenarios. We explore practical strategies for implementing resilient recovery mechanisms across Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and other AWS database services. [...]

Victory at HackNC State: Innovating for the Telecom Industry with Valkey

2026-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

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 [...]

Introducing Regina: Stateful AI Agent Orchestration for Platformatic Watt

2026-04-14T14:30:00+00:00

We’re excited to share Regina, a production-ready agent orchestration layer built on Platformatic Watt. Regina lets you go from single-agent demos to real systems you can run and scale confidently. Yo [...]

Pipelining and Transactions in Redis and Valkey

2026-04-13T21:32:47+00:00

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< [...]

Thanks AWS Open Source

2026-04-07T20:11:43+00:00

I would like to thank AWS Open Source for their support. For some time, I am maintaining Planet for the MySQL Community, a blog / news aggregator for the MySQL Community/Ecosystem. I am also maintaining a similar aggregator for the Valkey Community. Maintaining blog / news aggregators is not free. It incurs hosting, domain registration, and other costs (in addition to time, [...]

@platformatic/kafka Now Supports Confluent Schema Registry

2026-04-07T14:30:00+00:00

If you run Kafka in production, you can’t skip schema evolution. Teams need clear data types, compatibility checks, and a safe way to update contracts without breaking consumers or downstream services [...]

Presentation: When Every Bit Counts: How Valkey Rebuilt Its Hashtable for Modern Hardware

2026-04-07T13:40:00+00:00

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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 [...]

Security updates for Monday

2026-04-06T13:16:06+00:00

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, grafana, grafana-pcp, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, and gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free, kernel, libpng12, libpng15, perl-YAML-Syck, python3, and rsync), Debian (dovecot, libxml-parser-perl, pyasn1, python-tornado, roundcube, tor, trafficserver, and valkey), Fedora (bind9-next, chromium, cmake, do [...]

Migrating to Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey: Best practices and a customer success story

2026-04-01T20:50:38+00:00

In this post, we provide a guide to migrating from Redis OSS to ElastiCache for Valkey, incorporating different migration strategies and AWS best practices. Additionally, we highlight a customer’s successful migration to Valkey, which maintained their robust performance standards while achieving a 20% reduction in ElastiCache cluster costs. [...]

Announcing Spring Data Valkey: A New Season for High-Performance Spring Applications

2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

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 [...]

What Valkey's new primitives tell us about the tools we need

2026-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

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 automatic query caching with Valkey

2026-03-26T15:57:00+00:00

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 [...]

Valkey: the open source Redis fork built for true community governance

2026-03-26T10:24:07+00:00

When Redis changed from an open source BSD license to a proprietary dual license in 2024, six engineers from major tech companies decided the community deserved better. The result was Valkey, a truly community-driven fork now hosted by the Linux Foundation. Madelyn Olson, is one of Valkey’s co-founders and spoke with us at KubeCon and […] [...]

Security updates for Thursday

2026-03-19T13:01:03+00:00

Security updates have been issued by Debian (freetype), Fedora (aqualung, kiss-fft, libtasn1, mac, and vim), Red Hat (libarchive, osbuild-composer, and rhc), Slackware (expat), SUSE (ca-certificates-mozilla, chromium, cockpit, cockpit-machines, cockpit-podman, curl, docker, docker-compose, docker-stable, gnutls, gstreamer-rtsp-server, gstreamer-plugins-ugly, gstreamer- plugins-rs, gstreamer-plugins [...]

Rate Limiting Strategies with Valkey/Redis

2026-03-18T19:32:14+00:00

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 […] [...]

Rate Limiting Strategies with Valkey/Redis

2026-03-18T19:32:14+00:00

The post Rate Limiting Strate [...]

Announcing Aiven for Valkey 9 and Multi-Version Support

2026-03-17T17:45:00+00:00

Experience major throughput gains, granular data control and more control over when you upgrade. [...]

React SSR Framework Showdown: TanStack Start, React Router, and Next.js Under Load

2026-03-17T14:30:00+00:00

Performance benchmarks capture a moment, not a final judgment. Results depend on a specific workload, scale, and constraints; they do not rank frameworks by value. Next.js stands out for its widesprea [...]

Aiven for Valkey™ 9.0 is here

2026-03-17T09:10:00+00:00

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.

Key highlights

Hash field expiration: You can now set TTLs (time-to-live) on individual fields within a single Hash key using commands like HEXPIRE Aiven for Valkey™ now supports multiple concurrent versions 2026-03-17T09:10:00+00:00 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 [...] Beyond Vectors: Introducing Full-Text Search and Aggregations to Valkey 2026-03-17T01:00:00+00:00 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 [...] Scale Next.js Image Optimization with a Dedicated Platformatic Application 2026-03-10T14:46:21+00:00 Image optimization with Next.js is a popular feature, but one that quietly causes instability (in the form of latency spikes) for your frontend. This is because image resizing and encoding are very C [...] Security updates for Tuesday 2026-03-10T13:13:38+00:00 Security updates have been issued by Debian (imagemagick), Fedora (chromium, matrix-synapse, mingw-zlib, perl-Net-CIDR, polkit, and rust-pythonize), Mageia (coturn, firefox, and thunderbird), Oracle (delve, git-lfs, gnutls, go-rpm-macros, image-builder, kernel, libsoup, nfs-utils, nginx:1.24, osbuild-composer, postgresql, thunderbird, udisks2, and valkey), Red Hat (grafana, image-builder, and opent [...] Security updates for Monday 2026-03-09T13:06:10+00:00 Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (delve, git-lfs, and postgresql16), Fedora (cef, chezmoi, chromium, coturn, erlang-hex_core, firefox, gh, gimp, k9s, keylime, keylime-agent-rust, libsixel, microcode_ctl, nextcloud, nss, perl-Crypt-URandom, pgadmin4, php-zumba-json-serializer, postgresql16-anonymizer, prometheus, python-asyncmy, python3.10, python3.11, python3.9, staticcheck, valkey, a [...]