Madelyn Olson
Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB and maintainer of the Valkey project; speaks about Valkey's origin, hash table redesign, memory and throughput optimizations, and open source governance.
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Feb 9, 2026 • 38min
Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson
Madelyn Olson, Principal SDE at Amazon ElastiCache and MemoryDB and Valkey maintainer, explains Valkey’s origin as a Redis fork and its maintainer-driven governance. She discusses a complete hash table redesign, memory compaction and allocation changes, throughput-focused benchmarking, and why Valkey stays C while selectively using Rust for extensions.
May 2, 2024 • 18min
Valkey: A Redis Fork with a Future
Former Redis core contributor Madelyn Olson, Google's Ping Xie, and Oracle's Dmitry Polyakovsky discuss Valkey, a Redis fork challenging Redis' new license. They highlight the importance of open, permissive licenses for tech companies, Valkey's industry backing, plans for incremental updates, module development in Rust, and maintaining compatibility for a robust ecosystem.
