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Jay miller @kjaymiller.com · 01/10/2026

I spoke with with Kristiyan Ivanov of BetterDB, the Valkey and Redis observability tool. Kristiyan is a regular contributor to the Valkey community and the ecosystem of tooling being built around it. youtu.be/pJd6BAxQr0o

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Opus 5.5, such an improvement. ``` ❯ Why do you think his name is patrick? Ran 1 shell command I made it up. I guessed "Patrick" from the "p" in the handle pnbrown and didn't check. Their GitHub profile name is Nigel Brown. I should have looked it up or just used the handle. ```

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Valkey committed more code last month than any other month in our history. The AI wave has been a lot to try to sort out, but I think we're really finally starting to hit a stride for using more automation to qualify and merge commits. Hoping it lasts 🤞

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the Valkey contributors build a fully WASM embedded version of Valkey that runs in the browser valkey-rainfall.github.io/valkey/tryme... (with a cool retro intro). So obviously the first thing I did was figure out how to break it 😈.

An embedded Valkey CLI that is now broken since the user changed the ACL permission and shut it down.

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm getting a little fed up with Claude's cyber guardrails when I'm trying to verify if something is a bug (since Claude's reasoning is so mid sometimes). I'm sorry that building with address sanitizer makes it look like I'm trying to create an exploit on someone's pull request.

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 20/08/2026

If you're passionate about open source and solving problems, we have a #P99CONF speaker for you! @reconditerose.bsky.social will be presenting at our free and virtual conference on October 21-22, so we sat down to learn a little more about her. p99conf.io/2026/08/19/s... #ScyllaDB

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P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Madelyn Olson

Get to know Madelyn Olson, Principal Software Engineer at AWS — and Valkey co-creator/maintainer — in anticipation of her P99 CONF talk: “”The Vertical Scaling Wall, and How Valkey Gets Over It.”…

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My Amazon alarm clock decided to enter incognito mode this morning. You had one job clock, clearly show the time.

A digital clock that shows a vary low contrast time.

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Swift Language @swift.org · 05/08/2025

Need a fast key/value datastore? The portfolio of Swift packages for building high-performance internet-scale services grew further this week with the preview of Valkey support: valkey.io/blog/valkey-...

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Valkey · Introducing valkey-swift, the Swift client for Valkey

The new Swift client for Valkey is now in preview. Learn about its features and how it brings the performance of Valkey to the Swift language.

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Valkey @valkeyio.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My new hobby has been to sprinkle in em dashes into my very human written text — just to mess with people. Got to keep people on their toes.

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

TIL that AWS really has no hard limit on spending. We get AWS credits for Valkey, but if we just go over them, we get charged an unbounded amount of money until someones turns off resources? That is kind of terrifying.

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I got a new laptop recently, and I was convinced it would solve my RAM problems. Turns out it's me, I'm the RAM problem.

A window showing how I'm using over 100GB of memory on chrome, docker, kiro and outlook.

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Just now, someone joined the Valkey community slack, copied my username and profile picture, and then sent a fairly personalized message to everyone in the community slack about some new caching and AI integration that linked to a malicious site. Remember your phishing fundamental folks!

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Nothing quite like responding to AI slop security email with an AI slop response going through why their wrong point by point. So glad we're burning the world for this high quality interaction.

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Building and maintaining contributors is usually so much harder than the work of actually building the software itself, but the long term returns of having diversity really makes a project durable in the long run. Appreciate the analysis!

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I like that my government sometimes builds nice things. Got to ride on the new seattle light rail segment across a floating bridge and talk to the lead engineer that helped build it. Even the sun came out to enjoy it!

A sunny day looking across Lake Washington from the i90 floating bridge. Lake rainier in the distance.

A wood model of the floating seattle light rail bridge. It shows how the rail can twist and turn with the lakes waves.

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 27/03/2026

trans people are actually ok and normal and nice, and are often pretty fucking cool, and we should stop throwing them under the bus. i honestly can't believe that this in any way needs saying. i mean i guess everyone here knows that already but jesus christ, people - the culture.

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

If you're at #KubeCon and interested learning about scaling caches to hundreds of nodes, hear some fun stories of things failing in production, or just want to learn a bit about @valkeyio.bsky.social, Come see my talk on thursday morning sched.co/2CW5d. It'll be fun!

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026: Scaling Valkey the Right Way: Kubernetes...

View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I had to come out to my parents four times before they listened, and still don't really understand how their choices impact my safety and future. Hearing @azimman.bsky.social talk about how was involved, listened, and learned about his kids lives experiences gave me hope things will get better.

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Valkey @valkeyio.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

📈 #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: bit.ly/4sn0m4M

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I do love kiro, but sometimes it feels like a toddler. I asked it make a small update, and then 15 minutes later: > [bio_safe_shutdown 6d3ee79bd] Add safe shutdown mechanism for BIO threads 61 files changed, 42479 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > Perfect! The implementation is complete.

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I wonder if generative AI is going to kill Amazon's writing culture. A doc that would have normally taken 1-2 weeks of thoughtful revision, can now be written by the frontier models with some MCPs to collect the data. The point of writing was to bring clarity. It's so easy to skip to the end now.

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Valkey @valkeyio.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🎉 Don’t miss out! The Unlocked Conference hits Jan 22 in San Jose, CA! #Valkey sessions you’ll love: - Valkey in production - Performance improvements in Valkey 9.0 🔥 Special deal: Register for just $99 with code LF99 (normally $200)! ✨ Spots are limited unlocked.gomomento.com/events/unloc...

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I love small intimate conferences to spark creatively. Which is why I'm co-hosting a large scale performance focused conference in San Jose early next year with Momento. We have a lot of cool speakers signed up, come join if you're interested. You can register at unlocked.gomomento.com

unlocked.gomomento.com

Unlocked Conference 2026

A conference built for performance engineers who want to scale Valkey and push low-latency architectures to their limits.

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Last Friday, #Valkey released fixes for 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1 to address some Lua vulnerabilities that may allow RCE from an authenticated user. It's a good time to remind folks to always lock down your Valkey instances, even in secure environments. See github.com/valkey-io/va... for all the details)

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Releases · valkey-io/valkey

A flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads. - valkey-io/valkey

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

If you weren't able to attend the recent Valkey event in Amsterdam, maybe you missed the Keyspace notification, you can see all the talks here www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... with slides posted valkey.io/events/keysp.... Check it out!

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Keyspace 2025 - YouTube

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Today we announce DocumentDB has joined the LF with support from Microsoft, AWS and many more. Check it out. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

So the #Valkey project is working on a packaged version of Valkey along with popular extensions (like LDAP authentication and vector similarity search). The plan is to call it `valkey-extensions`, but that the name might imply it's just extensions and not the core. Folks have better ideas/thoughts?

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It's a bit last minute, but if anyone is interested in a live stream about tuning Valkey to run efficiently on multiple cores, we'll be hosting it in a couple of hours www.linkedin.com/events/73360.... There will be a recording as well.

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Real-World Tuning of Valkey: A Deep Dive into Benchmarking and Optimization | LinkedIn

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Redis relicensed (under AGPL, which many cannot use). Valkey project, a Redis fork and still under an #opensource BSD license, continues to thrive in adoption and community at @linuxfoundation.org. Read more about what's next for Valkey: www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/a... @valkeyio.bsky.social

theregister.com

A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis

Interview: Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changes

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Just read a great blog by a friend about how to properly measure the performance of Valkey and Redis. When evaluating high performance systems, there are a lot of parameters which can affect the total throughput and it's easy to come up with "synthetic numbers". www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-...

gomomento.com

Valkey Turns One: How the Community Fork Left Redis in the Dust - Momento

Valkey is not only thriving, but now outperforming Redis 8.0 in real world benchmarks.

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Loophole Labs @loopholelabs.io · 08/05/2025

What if we could pick up a k8s cluster and move it w/out service disruption? We demo’d this at Kubecon NA 2024 by moving a @kubernetes.io cluster running Valkey from AWS to Azure and then GCP all without disruption! this is pure magic from @felicitas.pojtinger.com . loopholelabs.io/blog/zero-do...

loopholelabs.io

Reliable Cross-Cloud Kubernetes on Spot Instances with Architect

Live migrate entire Kubernetes clusters — stateful workloads included — between AWS, Azure, GCP and bare metal with zero downtime. With Architect and PVM you can cut cloud costs by up to 90% and end v...

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We have three new releases of #Valkey which include security fixes. Please consider upgrading if you have a publicly accessible Valkey instance or apply a mitigation to the CVE. - github.com/valkey-io/va... - github.com/valkey-io/va... - github.com/valkey-io/va...

github.com

Release 8.1.1 · valkey-io/valkey

Upgrade urgency SECURITY: This release includes security fixes we recommend you apply as soon as possible. Security fixes (CVE-2025-21605) Limit output buffer for unauthenticated clients (#1994) ...

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It’s @reconditerose.bsky.social quoting antirez at #MonkiGras on the importance of optimising for joy! "[..] We believe writing code is a lot of hard work, and the only way it can be worth is by enjoying it. When there is no longer joy in writing code, the best thing to do is stop. [..]”

Photo of Madelyn Olson on stage at Monki Gras in front of a slide showing the quote “"We optimize for joy. We believe writing code is a lot of hard work, and the only way it can be worth is by enjoying it. When there is no longer joy in writing code, the best thing to do is stop. To prevent this, we'll avoid taking paths that will make Redis less of a joy to develop." by antirez

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

We just launched a new release candidate for Valkey (the OSS fork of Redis). The main change is that we rebuilt the key/value store from scratch to take better advantage of modern hardware based on the work done at Google.

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

There are two new versions of Valkey out which have a number of bug fixes including two CVEs. If you are running Valkey in production, please check to see if you need to upgrade! Valkey 8.0.2: github.com/valkey-io/va... Valkey 7.2.8: github.com/valkey-io/va...

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Release 8.0.2 · valkey-io/valkey

Upgrade urgency SECURITY: This release includes security fixes we recommend you apply as soon as possible. Security fixes (CVE-2024-46981) Lua script commands may lead to remote code execution. (#...

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

People keep telling me that Valkey should deprecate 32bit, but then we wouldn't have this delightful version of Valkey that runs entirely in your browser with a CLI! zarkash-aws.github.io/try-valkey.g... It's the 32bit version of valkey running ontop of the v86 emulator. More features coming soon!

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Try Valkey

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The Valkey community is hard at work developing a high performance vector similarity search implementation, and we're looking for folks interested in providing high level API and directional feedback here: github.com/valkey-io/va.... They'll be a more concrete implementation soon once we're aligned.

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Revised VSS RFC by allenss-amazon · Pull Request #15 · valkey-io/valkey-rfc

Replaces and extends the previous PR for VSS module.

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 25/11/2024

Do you use my Redis rust crate? In particular do you use it with Valkey? Redis Inc. came knocking and I'm not sure what should be done here. I opened a GitHub issue if you have input. github.com/redis-rs/red...

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Future Crate Maintenance and Redis Inc. Relationship · Issue #1419 · redis-rs/redis-rs

Hello users. I haven't actively maintained this library in a very long time as you probably noticed. I am still controlling the entry on crates.io for it alongside the redis release team and @badbo...

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 8.0, aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa.... This is the first release with software that was developed by the new Valkey project, which includes a wide variety of improvements, from performance to memory efficiency. I have two specific anecdotes to share about it. 🧵

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Amazon ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling and improved memory efficiency | Amazon Web Services

Today, we are adding support for Valkey 8.0 on Amazon ElastiCache. ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling for ElastiCache Serverless and memory optimizations for node-based clusters....

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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 05/10/2024

only learned today that my favorite kv store transitioned and her name is valkey now... trans is beautiful... 🏳️‍⚧️

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Mike Dolan @mdolan.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

#opensource #valkey 8.0 benefits

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Madelyn Olson @reconditerose.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

For the bravehearts and tech enthusiasts, #Valkey (the OSS fork of Redis) has a release candidate out for version 8.0. This release is packed with performance, reliability and observability improvements. Check out more about it here: valkey.io/blog/valkey-....

valkey.io

Valkey · Valkey 8.0: Delivering Enhanced Performance and Reliability

The first release candidate of Valkey 8.0 is now available! Come learn about the exciting improvements in performance, reliability, and observability that are available in this new version.

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