Valkey 8 — Release of a Redis Fork Focused on Performance
summary
Valkey 8 is a fork of Redis focused on performance improvements; the talk describes that Valkey is fully open-source (no separate Enterprise edition) and reviews patches merged since spring 2024 that significantly improve performance compared to Redis 7.2.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:46What is Valkey 8
- 8:46Redis version comparison
- 12:25Redis 7.2 I/O thread issues
- 16:26Valkey 8 solutions
- 19:37Hash table optimization
- 23:18Replication in Valkey 8
- 24:44Memory savings in dictionary
- 25:49Reusable query buffer
- 26:53Summary and advantages
- 27:14Future Valkey changes
- 27:56Atomic slot migration
- 28:18Data compression and replication
- 29:02Q&A
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