When in-memory datastore Redis moved from its open source BSD license to the SSPL license in March 2024, it only took a few days for a fork to appear. AWS, Google, Oracle and the Linux Foundation quickly backed the Valkey project, and more than two years on, it is gearing up for its 10.0 release.
At ValkeyConf and the Open Source Summit in Prague this week, maintainers, contributors, and the broader open source community discussed the future of the project, efficiency challenges, and the effect of AI on development.
“Initially, we focused a lot more on just internal optimisations - memory efficiency stuff, raw performance stuff - because that's the easiest to build out when you're not exactly sure what new features to build because it's a new project,” AWS Engineer and Valkey co-initiator Madlyn Olson told The Stack, “But more recently, we've been expanding a lot more into new data types.”
