We just launched a new release candidate for Valkey (the OSS fork of Redis). The main change is that we rebuilt the key/value store from scratch to take better advantage of modern hardware based on the work done at Google.
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It significantly reduces memory overhead (~20%) while being faster in many real world scenarios. It required a bunch of tradeoffs, so we would love to get some folks try it out to make sure we aren't regressing before the GA launch.
I think the difference is we feel empowered to innovate. The Valkey community is really excited right now, so there is a lot going on and that is generating a lot of ideas. With Redis, everything took so long to make happen it just made everything feel slow.
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Seriously, wtf though. You and the Valkey contributors are straight up killing it 🤘
Do you feel like work like this was blocked pre-fork or was it hard getting alignment?
There was and still is a lot of re-architecting that I wish would happen but I’m not sure will ever get the attention it needs.