Why We Forked Redis: Madelyn Olson on the Future of Valkey скачать в хорошем качестве

Why We Forked Redis: Madelyn Olson on the Future of Valkey

When Redis changed its license in 2024, the community rallied to create Valkey. But the team didn't just fork the code - they optimized it. In this deep dive, Madelyn Olson (Principal SDE at Amazon ElastiCache) explains the low-level engineering challenges of modernizing a codebase from 2009. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:19 - The Valkey Origin Story 03:40 - Getting Started with Valkey 06:26 - Valkey is a hash map over TCP 07:59 - Improving the performance without breaking anything 13:58 - What does performance mean for Valkey 18:00 - Designing for typical use cases 20:40 - What changed in Valkey 8 and 9? 28:37 - Performance improvements 31:44 - Valkey’s open source governance 32:56 - The most peculiar place to run Valkey 34:07 - No, Valkey will not be rewritten in Rust #Valkey #Redis #SoftwareArchitecture #SystemsEngineering #OpenSource 🔗 Transcript available on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/4qcIiIw 💬 Madelyn mentions that for deep core infrastructure, rewriting existing C code in Rust might not be worth the risk vs. reward. Do you agree with this approach, or should modern caches be memory-safe by default? 🔔 Join thousands of software architects and senior developers - subscribe for your weekly dose of high-performance engineering. Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies: https://www.infoq.com/software-archit... Upcoming Events: QCon London 2026 (March 16-19, 2026) https://qconlondon.com/ QCon AI Boston 2026 (June 1-2, 2026) https://boston.qcon.ai The InfoQ Podcasts: Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts: The InfoQ Podcast https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/ Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engin... Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-po... Follow InfoQ: Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq X: https://x.com/InfoQ?from=@ LinkedIn:   / infoq   Facebook:   / infoqdotcom   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom... Youtube:    / infoq   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/infoq.com Write for InfoQ: Learn and share the changes and innovations in professional software development. Join a community of experts. Increase your visibility. Grow your career. https://www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq