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Stay up to date with the latest news, tutorials, and updates from the Valkey team.

  • Announcements

    Announcing Spring Data Valkey: A New Season for High-Performance Spring Applications

    Wednesday April 1, 2026

    Introducing Spring Data Valkey, a new open source Spring Data module that provides first-class integration between Valkey and the Spring ecosystem.

  • Technical Deep Dive

    What Valkey's new primitives tell us about the tools we need

    Friday March 27, 2026

    Valkey ships powerful operational primitives like COMMANDLOG, SLOT-STATS, and upcoming per-thread I/O metrics — but without purpose-built tooling, much of that value goes unrealized.

  • Announcements

    Beyond Vectors: Introducing Full-Text Search and Aggregations to Valkey

    Tuesday March 17, 2026

    Valkey Search now enables querying across text, tags, and numeric data and analyzing results with aggregations.

  • Community Highlight

    Introducing Valkey Admin: Visual Cluster Management for Valkey

    Wednesday February 25, 2026

    Valkey Admin is an open-source desktop application that provides visual cluster topology, hot key detection, performance diagnostics, and interactive key management for Valkey clusters without piecing together CLI commands. Now in preview!

  • Community Highlight

    Operational Lessons from Large-Scale Valkey Deployments

    Thursday February 19, 2026

    Production lessons on tail latency, migrations, and scale from engineers operating Valkey at real-world scale.

  • Announcements

    Don’t Miss What’s Next in Valkey — Subscribe Now

    Wednesday February 4, 2026

    Valkey is moving fast — and the easiest way to stay ahead is to subscribe to the official Valkey newsletter. From new releases and roadmap milestones to community highlights and upcoming events, our newsletter is your single source of truth for everything happening across the Valkey ecosystem.

  • Community Highlight

    Valkey 2025 Year-End Review: Reflecting on Progress and Looking Ahead

    Thursday January 22, 2026

    This past year marked an important chapter for Valkey, one defined by growth, collaboration, and a shared commitment to building an open, high-performance key-value store for everyone.

  • Announcements

    Valkey Helm: The new way to deploy Valkey on Kubernetes

    Tuesday January 6, 2026

    A guide on why the new Valkey Helm chart exists, how it helps, and how to migrate from Bitnami.

  • How-to

    How to Properly Secure Your Valkey Deployment

    Friday December 12, 2025

    Learn how to secure your Valkey deployment with defense in depth through network configuration, authentication, access controls, and operational best practices for production environments

  • Technical Deep Dive

    Resharding, Reimagined: Introducing Atomic Slot Migration

    Wednesday October 29, 2025

    Valkey 9.0 brings big changes and improvements to the underlying mechanisms of resharding. Find out how Atomic Slot Migration works, the benefits it brings, and the headaches it eliminates.

  • Announcements

    Valkey 9.0: innovation, features, and improvements.

    Tuesday October 21, 2025

    For Valkey's second major release, Valkey 9.0 brings innovation, long-requested features, and improvements to classic features updated for today’s workloads. Read on to find out all the team packed into this release.

  • Technical Deep Dive

    Scaling a Valkey Cluster to 1 Billion Request per Second

    Monday October 20, 2025

    Learn about the internal workings of cluster mode and the improvements which helped to scale to 1 Billion RPS with the latest Valkey 9.0 release

  • Technical Deep Dive

    How Valkey 8.1 Handles 50 Million Sorted Set Inserts

    Thursday October 2, 2025

    The latest Valkey 8.1 release introduces a redesigned hash table and other optimizations that promise lower memory usage and higher throughput. In this post, we put Valkey 8.1 under pressure by benchmarking it against Valkey 8.0, inserting 50 million members into a sorted set and measuring memory consumption and throughput along the way.

  • Technical Deep Dive

    Introducing Hash Field Expirations

    Tuesday September 30, 2025

    One of Valkey’s greatest strengths has always been its built-in ability to expire keys. This simple but powerful feature helps developers keep datasets fresh, automatically clear caches, and enforce session lifetimes — all without extra application logic. But until now, expiration worked only at the level of entire keys. In this post, we’ll explore how Valkey 9.0 introduces per-field expiration for hash objects, the challenges we faced designing it, the tradeoffs we considered, and the benchmarks that guided our final implementation. We’ll also walk through practical examples to show how you can start using this feature today.

  • Technical Deep Dive

    Numbered Databases in Valkey 9.0

    Thursday September 25, 2025

    Valkey 9.0 brings new namespacing abilities to cluster mode. In this blog you'll learn about numbered databases, how they've changed in the recent release, limitations, and how you can use them to efficiently solve a variety of otherwise challenging problems.

  • Community Highlight

    Valkey: An Investment in Open Source

    Tuesday September 16, 2025

    Valkey was founded just over a year ago to keep high-performance key/value storage in the open source community: free from vendor lock-in and restrictive licenses.

  • Events

    What you'll see at Keyspace 2025

    Tuesday August 12, 2025

    I sat on the selection committee for Keyspace and was floored by the number and quality of submissions we received. It's truly amazing to see the talent and depth of experience that is present in the Valkey community manifest in a slate of presentations aimed to interest both experienced and new Valkey users.

  • Announcements

    Introducing valkey-swift, the Swift client for Valkey

    Monday August 4, 2025

    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.

  • Community Highlight

    Using k0rdent MultiClusterService Template for Valkey on Kubernetes

    Monday July 21, 2025

    Learn how to deploy and manage Valkey across multiple Kubernetes clusters using k0rdent's template-driven approach for simplified multi-cluster application delivery.

  • Events

    Save the Date August 28, 2025: Keyspace

    Thursday July 10, 2025

    Join the Valkey crew on August 28, 2025 in Amsterdam for the first ever Valkey conference: Keyspace!

  • Announcements

    Introducing Vector Search To Valkey

    Monday July 7, 2025

    Learn how to build high-performance, reliable vector similarity search with valkey-search.

  • Announcements

    Introducing Enhanced JSON Capabilities in Valkey

    Monday June 30, 2025

    Learn about the new Valkey JSON with some real-world examples and application.

  • Announcements

    valkey-bundle: One stop shop for real-time applications

    Monday June 23, 2025

    Introducing valkey-bundle a single-container solution that combines Valkey with JSON, Bloom filters, Vector Similarity Search, and LDAP authentication capabilities to power development of real-time applications

  • Technical Deep Dive

    Performance Optimization Methodology for Valkey - Part 1

    Tuesday May 27, 2025

    Performance Optimization Methodology for Valkey

  • How-to

    Valkey Modules Rust SDK updates

    Tuesday May 20, 2025

    Extending Valkey using Rust SDK.

  • Community Highlight

    Upgrade Stories from the Community, Volume 1:

    Wednesday May 14, 2025

    Two new Valkey users describe what it's really like to upgrade

  • Announcements

    Introducing Bloom Filters for Valkey

    Wednesday April 9, 2025

    Learn how to use bloom filters to perform large-scale membership testing with significant memory savings.

  • Announcements

    Valkey 8.1: Continuing to Deliver Enhanced Performance and Reliability

    Wednesday April 2, 2025

    Valkey 8.1 is now generally available! Come learn about the exciting improvements in performance, reliability, and observability that are available in this new version.

  • Technical Deep Dive

    A new hash table

    Friday March 28, 2025

    Designing a state-of-the art hash table

  • Announcements

    Introducing the Valkey Glide Go Client: Now in Public Preview!

    Tuesday March 4, 2025

    Valkey Glide now supports GO. Read to learn more about the new client designed for performance and developer productivity

  • Technical Deep Dive

    Reducing application latency and lowering Cloud bill by setting up your client library

    Wednesday January 8, 2025

    By implementing AZ affinity routing in Valkey and using GLIDE, you can achieve lower latency and cost savings by routing requests to replicas in the same AZ as the client.

  • Community Highlight

    2024: The Year of Valkey

    Friday December 20, 2024

    The end of the calendar year is a great time to reflect, but for Valkey this particular year-end holds special meaning.

  • Technical Deep Dive

    Pushing the limits of Valkey on a Raspberry Pi

    Thursday November 21, 2024

    While most people won't go to production on a Raspberry Pi, we'll cover how to thoroughly performance test Valkey to understand how it works in production.

  • Announcements

    Generally Available: Valkey 8.0.0

    Monday September 16, 2024

    Today marks a milestone for the Valkey project: the first major release.

  • Technical Deep Dive

    Unlock 1 Million RPS: Experience Triple the Speed with Valkey - part 2

    Friday September 13, 2024

    Maximize the performance of your hardware with memory access amortization

  • Technical Deep Dive

    Storing more with less: Memory Efficiency in Valkey 8

    Wednesday September 4, 2024

    Learn about the new memory efficiency improvements in Valkey 8 which reduces memory overhead, which allows more data to be stored in the same amount of memory.

  • Technical Deep Dive

    Unlock 1 Million RPS: Experience Triple the Speed with Valkey

    Monday August 5, 2024

    Learn about the new performance improvements in Valkey 8 which reduces cost, improves latency and makes our environment greener.

  • Announcements

    Valkey 8.0: Delivering Enhanced Performance and Reliability

    Friday August 2, 2024

    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.

  • How-to

    Using Bitnami's Valkey chart

    Tuesday July 9, 2024

    An introductory example using Bitnami's Valkey chart

  • Community Highlight

    What's new in Valkey for June 2024

    Thursday June 27, 2024

    What have people been saying about Valkey in June 2024? Read on to find out.

  • Community Highlight

    What's new in Valkey for May 2024

    Friday May 24, 2024

    It's become clear that people want to talk about Valkey and have been publishing blog posts/articles fervently. Here you'll find a collection of all the post I'm aware of in the last few weeks.

  • How-to

    Valkey Modules 101

    Wednesday May 1, 2024

    The idea of modules is to allow adding extra features (such as new commands and data types) to Valkey without making changes to the core code.

  • Announcements

    Valkey 7.2.5 GA is out!

    Tuesday April 16, 2024

    Exciting times!I'm pleased to announce that you can start using the first generally available, stable Valkey release today.

  • Announcements

    SET first-blog-post "Hello, world"

    Thursday April 11, 2024

    Welcome! For the inaugural blog post on valkey.io, I’d like to recap the story so far, what to look forward to, and then describe how this blog works.