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Unlocked is dedicated to the infra nerds.
We're bringing together experts who build and operate web-scale infrastructure to share real-world lessons about real-world architectures with Valkey and Redis.
If you’re obsessed with distributed systems, tail latency, sub-millisecond response times, and evolving systems engineering for agents - this is where you need to be!
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community sponsors:
Keynote Speakers
Madelyn Olson
Principal Software Engineer, Valkey Maintainer
Khawaja Shams
CEO & Co-Founder,
Valkey Contributor
Jacob Murphy
Staff Software Engineer, Valkey Maintainer
Speakers
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Allen Samuels
Principal Software Engineer
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Daniela Miao
Co-Founder & CTO
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Jacob Murphy
Staff Software Engineer
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Kishor Yadav Kommanaboina
Staff Software Engineer
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Mike Levin
CEO
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Sailesh Krishnamurthy
VP of Engineering
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Sunjeet Singh
Staff Software Engineer
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William Schor
Senior Software Engineer
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Yang Zhao
Senior Software Engineer
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Andrew Stanton
Co-Founder & CPO
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Deepak Nandihalli
Software Engineer
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Jim Brunner
Software Development Engineer
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Madelyn Olson
Principal Software Engineer
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Nilanshu Sharma
Senior Software Engineer
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Samuel Shen
Software Engineer
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Tirtha Chatterjee
Software Engineer
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Xintian Li
Staff Software Engineer
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Yao Yue
CEO
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Brian Martin
Co-Founder
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Dmitry Polyakovsky
Consulting Member of Technical Staff
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Khawaja Shams
Co-Founder & CEO
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Manju Rajashekhar
Co-Founder & CEO
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Ratna Kumar Kovvuri
Staff Software Engineer
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Slava Markeyev
L6 Software Engineer
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Vu Pham
Senior Staff Software Engineer
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Yair Gottdenker
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Agenda
Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Kick-start the day with a foreword from Khawaja Shams and Mas Kubo
The Power of Community
How community-driven collaboration is accelerating Valkey innovation and shaping the future of modern infrastructure.
The 3AM Test: Why Boring Systems Let You Sleep At Night
How Valkey is evolving Day 2 operations for predictable systems at scale
Curating the Open Source Inbox with Agents and Valkey
What happens when your software can perform its own routine operations leaving you free to do whatever you want?
Lessons from Building a Production-grade Valkey Client Library in Swift
Building clients that survive worst-case production scenarios
Break
Valkey and Semantic Caching
Stop paying for repeated LLM calls when queries mean the same thing
Tweaking Valkey for High Write Rate Workloads
How to handle replication lag, memory pressure, and contention at high write rates
Beyond fork(): Memory-Efficient Snapshots for Valkey
Stop doubling memory just to take a snapshot
Finding Hidden Headroom in Saturated Clusters
Why 100% CPU doesn’t mean your cluster is out of capacity
Lunch
Geo-Replication with Valkey
How Apple keeps Valkey clusters in sync across regions without losing data
Scaling Search with Multithreading and Hybrid Queries
Combining vector, text, and filters in a single high-performance query
Foundations for High-Throughput Storage Envoy Plugins
When your proxy becomes the bottleneck and how to fix it
Efficiency at Scale: Our Journey from Redis to Valkey
Optimizing access patterns and memory to scale beyond Redis limits
Break
Secure, Scalable TLS Enhancements to Harden Valkey
Automatic TLS rotation, client auth, and guardrails without downtime
Towards Faster Inference: With KV Cache and Beyond
Modern LLM inference is a caching problem in disguise and the instincts that built your last cache will only get you halfway there.
Not All RESP Clients Are Created Equal
What to do when you can't rely on connection pooling at scale
Thinking beyond demand filled caching: how versioned caches dominate Netflix
How Netflix uses versioned caches to rethink the hardest problems in caching
Afternoon Break
Stress-Testing Valkey with the "Valkey Lab" Benchmarking Tool
Measure real performance gains with workloads that match production
Solving Cache Drift in High-Stakes Financial Systems
How to make the right trade-offs in financial production systems.
The 3AM Page: Tales From The Trenches
Raw, unscripted production horror stories and how to prevent them
Happy Hour!