This technical deep dive maps workloads including semantic caching, KV cache offload, hybrid retrieval, and admission control to the Valkey primitives behind them, providing a mental map of where Valkey fits across the AI stack. Read the latest blog by Kristiyan Ivanov: https://bit.ly/4wbi9Np

0.3 GB/s to ~10 GB/s. That's the throughput gain Momento and Tensormesh got optimizing their KV cache client against Valkey. Custom RESP client, fixed-size chunking, and dropping Python's GIL for C++. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rNa... #Valkey #OpenSource #Caching

Unlocked Conference — Towards Faster Inference, Daniela Miao (Momento) & Samuel Shen (Tensormesh)

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Tomorrow closes the ValkeyConf CFP. If your abstract is 60% written, that is a submittable abstract. Program committees know how to read draft language. October 5, Prague. sessionize.com/valkeyconf-2... #Valkey #OpenSource

Three days left to submit to ValkeyConf 2026. Sessions and lightning talks are open, first-time speakers welcome. October 5, Prague. CFP closes Sunday August 2. Submit here: sessionize.com/valkeyconf-2... #Valkey #OpenSource

Harbor v2.15.2 ships with valkey-photon as its internal cache image, powering session storage, manifest cache, job queue, and quota counter. Read the blog: valkey.io/blog/harbor-... #Valkey #OpenSource

Seattle Valkey is trading a conference room for Cougar Mountain on Thursday August 6. Meet Dmitry Polyakovsky at Red Town Trailhead, 4 PM. Food and drinks after. RSVP: www.meetup.com/seattle-valk... #Valkey #OpenSource

Valkey Admin is the official UI for monitoring and managing Valkey. One dashboard for memory, operations, cluster topology, hot keys, and command logs, plus a browser-based command runner that works like valkey-cli. #Valkey #OpenSource

ValkeyConf Prague's CFP closes August 2, one week out. Oct 5 main day, Oct 6 Contributor Summit, co-located with OSS Summit EU. Submit your session here: sessionize.com/valkeyconf-2... #Valkey #ValkeyConf

9 days left on the ValkeyConf CFP. The sessions worth submitting are the ones you learned the hard way - migrations, failure modes benchmarks never surface, integrations that ran long. October 5, Prague. Closes August 2 Submit yours here sessionize.com/valkeyconf-2... #Valkey #OpenSource #SRE

fork() pauses Valkey and can double memory use during saves. Jim Brunner (Amazon) on thread save, the forkless snapshot mechanism planned for Valkey 10, and the write-latency tradeoff it introduces. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muu7... #Valkey #SRE

Unlocked conference - Beyond fork: Memory-Efficient Snapshots for Valkey - Jim Brunner (AWS)

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Harbor replaced Redis with Valkey at v2.15.2. The Helm chart hasn't caught up yet, but valkey-photon is already on Docker Hub. This short walks through overriding the chart and confirming Valkey is running inside Harbor. goharbor.io #Valkey #Kubernetes

Andrew Stanton (Mad Labs): agents were spending 3 of 4 tokens building data retrieval scripts, not using data. Valkey's semantic search over MCP cut input tokens ~50% and turns spent searching fell from ~19 to one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u__w... #Valkey #OpenSource

Unlocked Conference: Curating Context with Agents and Valkey—Andrew Stanton, Co-Founder at Mad Labs

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Most teams don't replace their database with Valkey, they run it alongside one, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB. Percona's Kyle Davis breaks down why that pairing works, plus what's new in Valkey 9.1's database-level ACLs. valkey.io/blog/percona... #Valkey #OpenSource

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

This segment features Kyle Davis, Percona's General Manager of the Redis and Valkey Ecosystem, explores how Valkey complements relational databases with high-performance in-memory caching, simplifies ...

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At the Tencent Cloud Databases + AI Summit in Shanghai on May 29, Zhu Binbin (Valkey TSC Member) met with Jean Li from Volcengine. They discussed the future roadmap for Valkey and community governance. Even more excitingly, Volcengine plans to launch a Valkey service by the end of Q1 next year!

Seattle developers packed a meetup on June 25 to talk caching and chaos, co-sponsored by Valkey and Momento, hosted by Seattle Systems. Qu Chen (AWS) and Carl Sverre (Antithesis) took the stage to talk query caching and deterministic simulation testing. #Valkey #OpenSource #Caching

How do you stop GPU costs scaling linearly with users? At Percona Live, Chaitanya Nuthalapati (AWS) showed how Valkey as an external L2 cache keeps LLM inference latency stable under load. Full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgX-... #Valkey #OpenSource

Supercharging LLM Inference KV Caching with Valkey

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Finding bugs in open source is no longer the expensive part. Trail of Bits embedded security engineers with Valkey maintainers for a week. 64 PRs, 51 issues, 37 patches merged. The bottleneck has moved. blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/22/introducing-patch-the-planet/ #Valkey #OpenSource

Introducing Patch the Planet

Patch the Planet is our joint initiative with OpenAI to assist critical open-source software in the age of machine-speed vulnerability research.

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Running Valkey in production or contributing to the project? ValkeyConf 2026 wants your session. October 5, Prague. Sessions and lightning talks. CFP closes August 2. Submit your session here: sessionize.com/valkeyconf-2... #ValkeyConf #OpenSource

What are you building with Valkey? Share it with the community at ValkeyConf 2026 in Prague. Submit a session, lightning talk, or technical deep dive covering architecture,Valkey 10.0 features, performance, real-world use cases, and more. CFP closes August 2, 2026: https://bit.ly/4govDBa

What happens when databases evolve beyond storage? Valkey 9.1 introduces memory-efficiency improvements, database-level ACLs, cluster-wide scanning, integrated vector search, and the general availability of Valkey Admin for cluster operators. Read more from @thenewstack.io: https://bit.ly/4aGrPHG

At the Tencent Cloud Databases + AI Summit in Shanghai on May 29, Zhu Binbin (Valkey TSC Member) met with Jean Li from Volcengine. They discussed the future roadmap for Valkey and community governance. Even more excitingly, Volcengine plans to launch a Valkey service by the end of Q1 next year!

What do engineers from Netflix, Google, AWS, and dozens of other companies discuss when they get in the same room? Reliability. At Unlocked Seattle, the focus wasn't on chasing benchmarks. It was on building systems that remain predictable under pressure. Read the recap: valkey.io/blog/unlocke...

Valkey 9.1 delivers security, observability, performance, and memory-efficiency improvements. The release also raises an important question for open source communities: how can AI-assisted development support maintainers without increasing burnout? Read more: https://bit.ly/4xonFy2

Thanks to Libby Clark for highlighting Valkey as an example of what's possible with open source communities. The speed at which the Valkey community came together demonstrated how modern open source foundations can help communities organize, govern, and build together: https://bit.ly/4ew5e2Q

What happens when thousands of clients react to the same failure at the same time? Allen Helton, Ecosystem Engineer at Momento, explores connection storms, retry amplification, and lessons from Uber and Snap on building resilient systems at scale. Read more: https://bit.ly/4vBcJeI

Sailesh Krishnamurthy, VP of Engineering at Google, explores how customer demand is helping shape Valkey 9 and explains the virtuous cycle that connects users, contributors, and innovation. Watch the full session: https://bit.ly/4dXpD0P

One of the strengths of open source is continuous improvement, and Valkey 9.1 is a great example. This release brings together a collection of enhancements that improve day-to-day operations, including new metrics and features. Watch the full discussion: https://bit.ly/4uTLo7C

How do you maintain predictable, ultra-low latency when your live event audience doubles in just five minutes? Momento Co-founder and CTO Daniela Miao shares how upgrading to Valkey drives massive memory efficiency and handles intense traffic bursts: https://bit.ly/3S4TH1P

Looking back on Percona Live last week, what an incredible experience. It was fantastic to meet new faces, connect with the community, and see firsthand the momentum building around Valkey.

Valkey 9.1 introduces up to 10% lower per-key memory usage for common workloads, automated TLS certificate reloading, database-level ACLs, and CLUSTERSCAN for cluster-wide key scanning. Also includes updates to Valkey Search, Valkey Admin, and Valkey GLIDE. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4u6Miwa