ValkeyConf 2026 lands the same week as Valkey 10.0 ships. Working on a performance deep dive, migration story, or integration for the release? That's the talk Prague wants to hear. Sessions + lightning talks, first-timers welcome. Submit: sessionize.com/valkeyconf-2026/

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

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

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

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

Valkey maintainer Madelyn Olson explains how AI agents are helping open source maintainers manage growing contribution volumes and giving maintainers more time to focus on code quality, security and project direction. https://bit.ly/4fgkaDd

What stands out about the Valkey community isn’t just the tech—it’s the people behind it. Conversations, collaboration, and shared experience keep shaping where things go next. Stay connected and subscribe to the Valkey newsletter for updates, releases, and community news: https://bit.ly/4uGzmhU

Day 2 behind the scenes at Percona Live. Good conversations—talking performance, scalability, and real-world production lessons. Always a highlight seeing the open source community come together like this.

Paul Nashawaty from Efficiently Connected Insights, caught up with Valkey maintainers Jacob Murphy and Madelyn Olson at OSSummit NA. They reported a 55% rise in commits and a 500% increase in lines of code over six months, largely driven by AI-assisted contributions. Read on: https://bit.ly/4nYDx6g

How do teams keep databases fast, reliable, and scalable in production? Percona Live is happening now, showcasing real-world approaches from engineers running Valkey at scale—covering performance, resilience, and operational best practices. Agenda: https://bit.ly/4wUYOl2

At JavaOne 2026, Dmitry Polyakovsky (Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle) highlighted how Valkey enables distributed and semantic caching strategies for modern agentic systems. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3Rn8OU7

Valkey 9.1 is live, hitting a massive 2.1M requests/sec on a single instance! See the breakdown from Roberto Luna Rojas. ⬇️ Valkey 9.1 is live, hitting a massive 2.1M requests/sec on a single instance! Read the blog here: https://bit.ly/4v1nCGz See the breakdown from Roberto Luna Rojas. ⬇️

Valkey 9.1 delivers stronger security, better observability, and up to 2.1M requests per second on a single server. New features include database level ACLs, JSON logging, CLUSTERSCAN, HGETDEL, and MSETEX alongside performance and memory efficiency improvements. Blog here: https://bit.ly/4v1nCGz

At Open Source Summit North America in Minneapolis, join Madelyn Olson & Jacob Murphy’s keynote on open source and AI + semantic search in caching. Visit AWS/Percona demos by Roberto Luna Rojas + Wed breakfast meetup: https://bit.ly/4djJhCr

Daniela, CTO of Momento, breaks down how Valkey fits into the AI performance puzzle. It acts as the robust KV cache storage layer that prevents LLMs from "starting from zero" on every request. It is a shift from treating caching as a basic utility to a strategic AI asset. https://bit.ly/4nsI68z

Breakfast tacos, mimosas, and the Valkey community — Cache Café is your pre-keynote meetup... - Sonora Mexican Kitchen · 1414 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis - Wednesday, May 20 · 7:00–9:15 AM CDT Bring your OSSummit attendee badge. RSVP here: https://bit.ly/4djJhCr

Valkey Admin 1.0 is out. A visual cluster management tool for Valkey—real-time dashboards, topology maps, key browser, hot key detection, and command logs, all in one place. Your cluster, all in one place → https://bit.ly/4fnytFU

"AI is more like a friend who knows everything for me now." Yang Zhao, Sr. Software Engineer at Apple, has started using AI agents for her everyday questions over traditional search. The way we find information is changing faster than most people realize. #AI #FutureOfWork #Agent

Recommendation systems are moving towards transformers to encode user activity and produce vectors. And for search? Teams are turning to Valkey — ultra-low latency + real-time indexing is exactly what these systems need. 🔍 Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/4wjtUTs

Want to build fast, scalable semantic search with minimal infrastructure? Check out the new #Valkey integration for Haystack — and see it in action. https://bit.ly/4d1hWGp A huge thank you to Daria Korenieva for putting this demo together — the community keeps delivering.

So much happening in the Valkey community right now — with events running concurrently this week, the energy has been incredible. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the Data Innovation Summit featuring contributors Kyle Davis and Björn Svensson. Recording dropping soon!

Keeping the #UnlockedConf momentum going with our community stars! 🌟 We caught up with Meet Bhagdev (Head of Product Management, AWS) to talk about the future of AI. His must-watch use case? Semantic Caching. As AI costs grow, Meet highlights how Valkey is the key to scaling efficiently.

Spotted at Unlocked Conference: Roberto Luna Rojas sharing his takes on all things Valkey 👀 From Netflix versioning to Apple's geo-replication with Kafka — the community use cases are next level. "Warning systems that mean we can sleep at night." 😴 We love to hear it. #Valkey #UnlockedConference

Grabbing lunch and already processing a packed morning at #UnlockedConf. Google Cloud on community momentum. Snap with production war stories. AI agents running on Valkey to manage Valkey. Forkless snapshots. And so much more. This is what Valkey momentum looks like. And we're only at halftime.

Reduce Token Cost for LLMs: AI Agent Memory with Valkey and Mem0 provides a technical framework for managing long-term context by utilizing Valkey as a high-performance data store alongside Mem0 for memory orchestration. Read the blog: https://bit.ly/4wjtUTs

Percona is collaborating with the community to build the official Valkey Operator for Kubernetes. While version 1.0 is on the horizon, several powerful features are already live: - Cluster Configuration. - User Access Control List. - TLS Support. Read the blog: https://bit.ly/4n8vhQn

Valkey-swift 1.0 is here! This production-ready release brings the power of Swift 6 to Valkey. Enjoy a lightweight footprint, stable APIs, and full Data-Race Safety. Built on Structured Concurrency, it ensures clean, memory-safe code without the headache of connection leaks. https://bit.ly/4eUE32k

Valkey’s new Release Candidate isn't just a preview—it’s a critical trial phase for the next General Availability release. Broadly following the SemVer spec, Valkey uses RCs for major and minor feature releases to ensure all user-facing changes are tested. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4t099Jm

Madelyn Olson and Jacob Murphy at OSSummit NA on May 20th, “When Similar Is Good Enough: Rethinking Caching for AI”. https://osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2JQwU/when-similar-is-good-enough-rethinking-caching-for-ai-madelyn-olson-valkey-jacob-murphy-google-cloud?iframe=yes&w=100%&sidebar=yes&bg=no

What if scaling Laravel applications required zero code changes? At Laracon India 2026 in Ahmedabad, the Shirish Kulkarni demonstrated how Valkey enables exactly that for modern Laravel systems. https://valkey.io/blog/valkey-at-laracon-india-2026/

Will you be at #Percona Live 2026 in Mountain View, CA (May 27–29)? The Valkey sessions look strong this year 👇 • https://bit.ly/4d1omoM • https://bit.ly/42qKzGG • https://bit.ly/4d1k3d3 • https://bit.ly/4mOlEq0 See you there — nothing beats caching up in person.

What started as a deep dive into the open source search and observability stack with OpenSearch, Valkey, OpenTelemetry, and PostgreSQL turned into nonstop conversations well past closing. When a community leans in like that, you know it’s more than just a meetup.

Valkey GLIDE C# client 1.0.0 is released! From 0.0.9 → 1.0.0: improved command support, connectivity and security, GLIDE-native API and StackExchange.Redis compatibility, observability, performance, and other improvements. 👉 Glide on in, explore 1.0.0, and contribute: https://bit.ly/4cEJWOz

Join us on May 7 at the Data Innovation Summit to explore what this means in practice. Valkey community contributors, Kyle Davis and Björn Svensson will touch on how the Valkey project came to be, who’s behind it, and how organizations leverage it. https://bit.ly/4dzPwE2https://bit.ly/4dzPwE2

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