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The community gathered at the Valkey Unlocked Conference to celebrate two years of innovation and ecosystem growth. In a keynote titled, "The Power of Community," Sailesh Krishnamurthy (VP of Engineering at Google) shared core insights on what it takes to build a thriving, resilient open source project and where the technology goes from here.
.unlocked-healthy-opps-video { display: flex; [...]With Harbor v2.15.2, the Harbor team replaced Redis with Valkey as its internal cache backend. This was a deliberate open source choice that highlights the flexibility and resilience of the open source ecosystem.
Harbor is a CNCF graduated open source container registry, a place where organizations can store, manage, and secure container images, Helm charts, OCI artifacts, CNAB (Cloud Nat [...]
Across four releases, I/O-threading changes removed a serial copy bottleneck, cut p99 latency, and brought large GETs to line rate on our 200 Gbps test rig.
[...]If you’ve used Valkey for very long you’re probably aware of the different primary data types in the core: strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, and streams. Each data type has an accompanying set of commands that manipulate that data type. For example, you use HSET to set a field and value pair to a hash, but you don’t use, for example, HSET to add an element to a list. What i
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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
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
What's happening
Aiven for Dragonfly is being discontinued on the Aiven Platform:
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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, [...]
Benchmarking a cache should be about finding how much load your system can sustain before latency SLOs break. Introducing valkey-lab.
[...]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.
[...]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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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.
SecurityRelease 9.1 strengthens Valkey's security capabilities with several important enhancements:
Nu [...]
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 [...]
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:
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 [...]
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.
IntroductionValkey-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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]