5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Valkey first-hand: 4 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We switched to Valkey after the Redis license kerfuffle happened, discovered we were saving money on our AWS bill, and have no motivation to go back to Redis.”
endorse · production · stevoski · 2026-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Valkey two years ago. I haven't really looked back.”
endorse · production · 2 yr · jillesvangurp · 2026-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Valkey on our Elasticache instances and immediately noticed a performance improvement”
endorse · production · llmthrow103 · 2025-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Valkey and it's our choice for a couple upcoming projects as well. To switch back now after this whole ordeal would make no sense at all.”
endorse · production · bobsoap · 2025-05-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?