Avid hiker, maintainer of the Valkey project, and engineer at AWS. Thoughts are my own.https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mmhdnfg3i226My new hobby has been to sprinkle in em dashes into my very human written text — just to mess with people. Got to keep people on their toes.22 May 2026 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhdnfg3i226https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mlwhj5qnns2kTIL that AWS really has no hard limit on spending. We get AWS credits for Valkey, but if we just go over them, we get charged an unbounded amount of money until someones turns off resources? That is kind of terrifying.15 May 2026 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwhj5qnns2khttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mltkpa3ed222I got a new laptop recently, and I was convinced it would solve my RAM problems. Turns out it's me, I'm the RAM problem.14 May 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltkpa3ed222https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mji6euai4c2xJust now, someone joined the Valkey community slack, copied my username and profile picture, and then sent a fairly personalized message to everyone in the community slack about some new caching and AI integration that linked to a malicious site. Remember your phishing fundamental folks!14 Apr 2026 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mji6euai4c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mj3ma47sgk2gNothing quite like responding to AI slop security email with an AI slop response going through why their wrong point by point. So glad we're burning the world for this high quality interaction.09 Apr 2026 20:06 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3ma47sgk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mittjbfu6s2mBuilding and maintaining contributors is usually so much harder than the work of actually building the software itself, but the long term returns of having diversity really makes a project durable in the long run. Appreciate the analysis! [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Apr 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mittjbfu6s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mi5jgsdnps23I like that my government sometimes builds nice things. Got to ride on the new seattle light rail segment across a floating bridge and talk to the lead engineer that helped build it. Even the sun came out to enjoy it!28 Mar 2026 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi5jgsdnps23https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mhsbac7fgs2cIf you're at #KubeCon and interested learning about scaling caches to hundreds of nodes, hear some fun stories of things failing in production, or just want to learn a bit about @valkeyio.bsky.social, Come see my talk on thursday morning sched.co/2CW5d. It'll be fun! https://sched.co/2CW5d24 Mar 2026 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhsbac7fgs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mhlekejlas2i@atls.city !set US-WA-Seattle21 Mar 2026 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhlekejlas2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mhkvfk2b3c2kI had to come out to my parents four times before they listened, and still don't really understand how their choices impact my safety and future. Hearing @azimman.bsky.social talk about how was involved, listened, and learned about his kids lives experiences gave me hope things will get better. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Mar 2026 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhkvfk2b3c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mfuxt5lqd22rI do love kiro, but sometimes it feels like a toddler. I asked it make a small update, and then 15 minutes later: > [bio_safe_shutdown 6d3ee79bd] Add safe shutdown mechanism for BIO threads 61 files changed, 42479 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > Perfect! The implementation is complete.28 Feb 2026 00:29 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfuxt5lqd22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mer5r3tok223I wonder if generative AI is going to kill Amazon's writing culture. A doc that would have normally taken 1-2 weeks of thoughtful revision, can now be written by the frontier models with some MCPs to collect the data. The point of writing was to bring clarity. It's so easy to skip to the end now.13 Feb 2026 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mer5r3tok223https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3m7pqvtj5zk24I love small intimate conferences to spark creatively. Which is why I'm co-hosting a large scale performance focused conference in San Jose early next year with Momento. We have a lot of cool speakers signed up, come join if you're interested. You can register at unlocked.gomomento.com https://unlocked.gomomento.com/11 Dec 2025 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7pqvtj5zk24https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3m2ku5omcc22yLast Friday, #Valkey released fixes for 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1 to address some Lua vulnerabilities that may allow RCE from an authenticated user. It's a good time to remind folks to always lock down your Valkey instances, even in secure environments. See https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases for all the details)07 Oct 2025 00:19 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ku5omcc22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3lylo3xctek2gIf you weren't able to attend the recent Valkey event in Amsterdam, maybe you missed the Keyspace notification, you can see all the talks here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAV1X7hxH2HtZWc2YNQRMQe9FT9XTWemE with slides posted https://valkey.io/events/keyspace-2025/. Check it out!11 Sep 2025 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3lylo3xctek2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3lrdu45s4m22ySo the #Valkey project is working on a packaged version of Valkey along with popular extensions (like LDAP authentication and vector similarity search). The plan is to call it `valkey-extensions`, but that the name might imply it's just extensions and not the core. Folks have better ideas/thoughts?11 Jun 2025 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrdu45s4m22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3lqveb6r3yc25It's a bit last minute, but if anyone is interested in a live stream about tuning Valkey to run efficiently on multiple cores, we'll be hosting it in a couple of hours https://www.linkedin.com/events/7336051778792108032. There will be a recording as well.05 Jun 2025 22:22 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqveb6r3yc25https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3loqxk4a32s2kJust read a great blog by a friend about how to properly measure the performance of Valkey and Redis. When evaluating high performance systems, there are a lot of parameters which can affect the total throughput and it's easy to come up with "synthetic numbers". https://www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-turns-one-how-the-community-fork-left-redis-in-the-dust/09 May 2025 17:34 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqxk4a32s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3lnloxechzk24We have three new releases of #Valkey which include security fixes. Please consider upgrading if you have a publicly accessible Valkey instance or apply a mitigation to the CVE. - https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases/tag/8.1.1 - https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases/tag/8.0.3 - https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases/tag/7.2.924 Apr 2025 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnloxechzk24https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3liifiwunlc2sWe 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.18 Feb 2025 23:19 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3liifiwunlc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3lfbuy75rzc2qThere are two new versions of Valkey out which have a number of bug fixes including two CVEs. If you are running Valkey in production, please check to see if you need to upgrade! Valkey 8.0.2: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases/tag/8.0.2 Valkey 7.2.8: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases/tag/7.2.809 Jan 2025 04:51 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfbuy75rzc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3ldjjlra36k2qPeople keep telling me that Valkey should deprecate 32bit, but then we wouldn't have this delightful version of Valkey that runs entirely in your browser with a CLI! https://zarkash-aws.github.io/try-valkey.github.io/ It's the 32bit version of valkey running ontop of the v86 emulator. More features coming soon!17 Dec 2024 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldjjlra36k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3lcvixbolb22mThe Valkey community is hard at work developing a high performance vector similarity search implementation, and we're looking for folks interested in providing high level API and directional feedback here: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-rfc/pull/15. They'll be a more concrete implementation soon once we're aligned.09 Dec 2024 19:54 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcvixbolb22m