The InfoQ Podcast features an interview with Madelyn Olson, maintainer of the Valkey project and principal software development engineer at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Memory DB. The discussion covers the origin story of Valkey, its performance improvements, and its use cases. Madelyn explains how Valkey is a hash map over TCP and how it improves performance without breaking anything. She also discusses the design of Valkey, including its use of a binary index tree and memory allocation strategies. The interview concludes with a discussion of Valkey's open source governance model and the most peculiar place Madelyn has run Valkey. The podcast is available on various platforms, including InfoQ, SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, and YouTube.
