Seattle Valkey

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About us

Valkey is a recent fork of Redis due to licensing changes. This meetup will be a place for Valkey/Redis technology enthusiasts to meet and share ideas. We hope to host events on regular basis.

Read https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/ and https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community for details

Upcoming events

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Valkey summer hike
Thu, Aug 20 · 4:00 PM PDT
Location not specified yet
Let’s do something different and trade sitting around for a hike in the beautiful Pacific Northwest!

Meet us at 4:00 PM at Cougar Mountain
Red Town Trailhead: off Lakemont Blvd SE (map)

This is the most popular gateway to the park, providing the shortest and easiest route to Coal Creek Falls. It also features historical coal mining interpretive signs and remnants.

More info https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dnrp/nature-recreation/parks-recreation/king-county-parks/parks/cougar-mountain

Please arrive on time, as we won’t be able to wait long. Parking is free and you don't need a pass
Please wear good hiking boots and bring plenty of water.

After the hike we can go to a restaurant nearby for food and drinks.
12 attendees
Valkey September 2026 meetup
Wed, Sep 2 · 5:00 PM PDT
Amazon Day 1, 2121 7th Avenue, Seattle, WA, US
We will have three exciting presentations
- Forkless Operations in Valkey: Internals, Performance, and Tradeoffs by Nitai Caro (Software Engineer at AWS ElastiCache
- Valkey QoS: Prioritizing Stability Under Load - Satheesha Gowda, Software Engineer at GCP Memorystore
- The Anatomy of a Low-Latency System That Works for Large Items by Momento
  How do you move a megabyte between two hosts in under 100 microseconds? This number has mostly been aspirational until recently, but now you can get it without the caveat of "only for small items." Removing this caveat is crucial for KV Caching!
  Getting here takes more than a single trick. This talk dives into Copy Avoidance in Valkey 9, the network layer (EFA, Placement Groups), and RDMA.
  We will share reproducible benchmarks, the gnarly problems still ahead, and why Valkey is the most fun infrastructure work in open source right now.
21 attendees