Community Highlight

What's new in Valkey for June 2024

June 27, 2024

What have people been saying since the last what’s new post? Read on to find out.

News and Press

Richard Speed from The Register tells about how Valkey gained momentum with new backers. Michael Larabel wrote a couple of stories on Phoronix: one on how Valkey will be packaged in Fedora 41 and another on Valkey’s new backers.

Valkey How-To

Abhishek Gupta gives a tutorial on how to get started with Valkey on JavaScript (and LangChain).

In less than 10 minutes Shantanu shows you how to install Valkey from source on Ubuntu.

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Percona published a couple of detailed how-to posts: Matthew Boehm detailed setting up Valkey replication and Anil Joshi covers Valkey sharding.

Interviews and Podcasts

Swapnil from TFIR interviews Ann Schlemmer from Percona about why open source still leads the way despite license changes.

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TSC member Madelyn Olson was interviewed by Roberto Zicari on ODBMS and chatted with Corey Quinn about Valkey on the Screaming in the Cloud podcast.

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Robert and Courtney from the WooCommerce community chat about Valkey on the Do the Woo Podcast.

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About the authors

Kyle Davis
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Kyle is the General Manager for the Valkey ecosystem at Percona. He has a long history with open source software development; he was a founding contributor to the OpenSearch project and worked to build a community around Bottlerocket OS. When not working, Kyle enjoys 3D printing and getting his hands dirty in his Edmonton, Alberta-based home garden.

Kyle has written over 70 technology-related blog posts, tutorials, and bylines, published a book on microservice architectures, been a guest on more than a dozen podcasts, and presented at over 20 different conferences around the world (and too many meetups to list). He presents on a diverse range of topics such as open source software, data structures, 3D modelling, operating systems, and embedded electronics.