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You Never Know When You Need a Fork: Lessons Learned Building Valkey - Madelyn Olson & Roberto Luna Rojas, AWS
Valkey emerged after Redis made sudden changes in their licensing, triggering a hectic sprint from the community to find a replacement. This talk explores the challenges we faced building a new home for an existing community, from establishing a new governance, to getting our package included in Linux distributions, to making sure we configured github to prevent tag deletions. You’ll come away with practical lessons for efficiently running a large OSS project, the lessons we wish we had known when we started Valkey