Olson and Söderqvist Discuss Valkey’s Evolution and Future Past Caching Use Cases at OSS EU

Olimpiu Pop — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:09:00 GMT

Valkey is a growing project, launched as a fork of Redis over two years ago, supported by twelve maintainers and nine committee members from various companies. Recent developments include enhanced throughput, improved cluster functionality, and plans for features like synchronous replication and tiered storage. The project also emphasises security and release efficiency through automation.

By Olimpiu Pop

Article: Building a Session-Ordered Kafka Pipeline in Go

Joshua Oluikpe — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT

The article describes a custom implementation that provides a session-level ordering on top of Apache Kafka partitions, supporting strict message ordering across 1000s of independent channels. The solution required application-level routing, consistent hashing, retries, and contiguous watermark commits. Engineers conducted operational hardening supported by extensive performance testing.

By Joshua Oluikpe

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Olson and Söderqvist Discuss Valkey’s Evolution and Future Past Caching Use Cases at OSS EU

Article: Building a Session-Ordered Kafka Pipeline in Go