Unlocked Conference San Jose 2026 Session Replays

Session Replays from Unlocked San Jose

How the Valkey community unlocked the next generation of performance.

Madelyn Olson

Principal Software Engineer, Valkey Maintainer

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Opening Remarks

Khawaja Shams

CEO & Co-Founder,
Valkey Contributor

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⚡️ Lessons learned from the Memcached to Redis to Valkey journey

Ignacio Alvarez

Senior Principal Engineer

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⚡️ Announcing Valkey Admin: Real-Time Visibility for Healthy Valkey Clusters

Rong Zhang

Senior Product Manager

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How we verified 1 Billion RPS at scale, and why we won't do it again.

Sarthak Aggarwal

Software Engineer II

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Real-world caching lessons from 1B RPS in prod

Yang Yang & Shawn Wang

Senior Staff Engineers

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Valkey guardrails for large payloads - understanding, detecting, and controlling high-cost traffic

Yiwen Zhang

Senior Software Engineer

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Leveling up sharding: Making resharding boring with Atomic Slot Migration

Jacob Murphy

Staff Software Engineer, Valkey Maintainer

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⚡️ Stop Recomputing: Semantic Caching & Best Practices for AI Apps

Chaitanya Nuthalapati

Sr. Technical Product Manager

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ElastiCache Serverless - The story of a high-performance RESP proxy

Kevin McGehee

Principal Software Engineer

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The Systems Engineering Mandate: Scaling AI Beyond the Model

Daniela Miao

CTO & Co-Founder

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350 Caches Without a Fork: Snap's Migration from KeyDB to Valkey

Ovais Khan

Principal Software Engineer

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⚡️ Immutability in Motion

Joe Lane

Principal Software Engineer

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⚡️ Why I left Big-O in the dustbin when I left school

Yao Yue

CEO

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Lessons Learned from DRAM to NVMe Coroutine Based Design for Persistent Caching

Jeff Chen

Founder

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