Open Source Summit North America on May 20, 2026, “When Similar Is Good Enough: Rethinking Caching for AI” (11:00–11:40 AM CDT) ➡️ explore how caching is shifting from exact key-value matching to semantic similarity using vector search.
Session details here: https://bit.ly/3tANL0e
Join us at the Valkey SF Meetup, April 20th, 6–8pm PT. We’re diving into the #OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop—the reference demo used by 30+ vendors to showcase real-world observability across modern stacks powered by PostgreSQL, Valkey, OpenTelemetry, and OpenSearch.
Register: https://bit.ly/4dBTgoF
At HackNC State 2026, Team Catphish built a 24-hour solution to tackle AI-powered voice scams and earned “Best Use of Valkey API” for it. They turned a clear insight into a working system: don’t just verify who is speaking—verify how they respond.
Read their full story: https://bit.ly/429vuJr
Valkey is a nominee in the DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards, competing in the Best NoSQL Database category as a community.
How to vote:
- Use the voting link: https://bit.ly/3d943GX
- Best NoSQL Database category
- Select Valkey
- Submit (one vote per email)
Voting closes May 22. Vote now!
Yang Yang and Shawn Wang share Uber’s cache platform, peaking at 1B+ ops/sec.
They cover global-scale caching across thousands of services: connection storms, proxy limits, latency/consistency tradeoffs.
Next gen centers on Valkey for reliability scale
Watch the full talk: https://bit.ly/4sBhwen
Seamless adoption of Valkey
In this interview from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Joe Heyburn from Braze shares how his team moved to #Valkey with zero downtime, and the surprisingly simple migration process.
Watch the full interview: https://bit.ly/4sneHgL
Join us for a deep dive into the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop — the reference demo used by 30+ vendors — #PostgreSQL, #Valkey, #OpenTelemetry, and #OpenSearch.
🎟️ Start with Meetup registration: https://bit.ly/4dBTgoF
📢 Then confirm your spot via the venue: https://bit.ly/47K1pna
#Valkey has hit 100M+ Docker downloads!
This milestone wouldn’t be possible without our amazing community driving adoption worldwide: https://bit.ly/4ciB7e9
Speaking of community, Unlocked Conference is coming — a great chance to connect and share what’s next for Valkey: https://bit.ly/3PFPLnb
🌱 Spring Data #Valkey Has Arrived!
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Spring Data Valkey, a new open source Spring Data module that delivers seamless, first-class integration between Valkey and the Spring ecosystem.
Read the blog here: https://bit.ly/3PLAr8r
Seattle #Valkey is hosting its next meetup on April 9th!
• New features in Valkey-Search 1.2 (text search, hybrid search, aggregations)
• Full-text search internals, index creation, and structure
• Text ingestion workflows and supported search operations
Register here: https://bit.ly/3Qcd5Je
Valkey is turning 2 - join us in Seattle tomorrow, March 27th from 5 to 9 PM. RSVP here 👉 https://bit.ly/4rWlBJO
And while we're celebrating birthdays, a special shoutout to Madelyn Olson, who has given so much to this community. Contributions, knowledge, time. Happy early birthday, Madelyn!
🔎 Getting into the weeds of full-text search internals and what's next for Valkey 9.1.
Join Dmitry P. and Saurabh K. in Seattle to hear from Karthik Subbarao, Brennan Cathcart, and Madelyn Olson on search optimizations and the road to 9.1.
Details: https://bit.ly/4c6EnbB
#Valkey #OpenSource
Day 1 at #KCD Beijing is in the books! 🙌
Great conversations, awesome energy, and inspiring projects all around.
We’re back for Day 2—if you’re here, stop by the #Valkey booth and say hi. Let’s keep the momentum going
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from March 23-26 with Joe Heyburn speaking on Valkey
Attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU?
Join the Valkey community at Joe Heyburn's talk on the Braze case study. Learn how they safely migrated 250 mission-critical instances from EC2 to K8s with 0 downtime.
Add it to your schedule: https://sched.co/2CW6D
#Valkey #KubeCon #SRE
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, taking place from March 23-26 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands will feature Valkey talks with Madelyn Olson and Sarthak Aggarwal
Headed to Amsterdam next week?
Catch Madelyn Olson and Sarthak Aggarwal at KubeCon for their session on "Scaling Valkey the Right Way: Kubernetes at XL Scale."
Add it to your schedule: https://sched.co/2CW5d
#Valkey #KubeCon #CloudNative #OpenSource
📈 #Valkey Search 1.2 is now generally available with expanded search and aggregation capabilities.
Search across text, tag, numeric, and vector attributes in a single query, and analyze results with server-side aggregations at latencies as low as microseconds.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4sn0m4M
Valkey is turning two! 🎂
Join the community birthday bash to celebrate two years of open-source collaboration and growth.
Details: community.linuxfoundation.org/events/details/lfhq-valk...
#Valkey #OpenSource
In the news: Valkey's lean memory tactics amid global DRAM crunch
DRAM prices and hardware availability are a challenge for infra teams.
#Valkey 8.0 uses lean memory tactics to tackle the DRAM crunch, helping SREs reduce footprint without sacrificing performance.
@czajkowsk.bsky.social and Martin Visser interviewed for insights: https://bit.ly/472EIu6
Love seeing the energy around #Valkey in this latest podcast between Khawaja Shams (Momento) and Meet Bhagdev (AWS). It’s a great example of what happens when a strong open source community and committed contributors come together. Check out the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/4s5Rnov
Maani and Roberto outside of SCaLE
Valkey swag table and demo monitor
Two contributors holding up LEGO prizes in front of the Valkey booth
Roberto giving a thumbs up with a fellow contributor holding up a Valkey shirt
📸 That’s a wrap on SCaLE! It was a privilege to connect with the SREs, developers, and operators building with Valkey in Pasadena.
What was your favorite moment?
#Valkey #OpenSource
🎤 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.
