--- title: Valkey · Valkey Meets Laravel: Bridging Open Source... description: Valkey sponsored Laracon India 2026 in Ahmedabad, engaging with 900 attendees and holding over 100 booth conversations about using Valkey as a drop-in Redis... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-valkey-meets-laravel-bridging-open-source-communities-at-laracon-india-2026-qukjfexk9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Valkey · Valkey Meets Laravel: Bridging Open Source Communities at Laracon India 2026 | daily.dev og:description: Valkey sponsored Laracon India 2026 in Ahmedabad, engaging with 900 attendees and holding over 100 booth conversations about using Valkey as a drop-in Redis... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-valkey-meets-laravel-bridging-open-source-communities-at-laracon-india-2026-qukjfexk9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QukJfEXK9.png og:image:alt: Valkey · Valkey Meets Laravel: Bridging Open Source Communities at Laracon India 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Valkey · Valkey Meets Laravel: Bridging Open Source Communities at Laracon India 2026 **[Valkey](https://daily.dev/sources/valkey-blog)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Valkey sponsored Laracon India 2026 in Ahmedabad, engaging with 900 attendees and holding over 100 booth conversations about using Valkey as a drop-in Redis OSS replacement in Laravel apps. The recap covers Valkey's protocol compatibility, performance gains (up to 230% over 7.2, 1.2M ops/sec per server, 1B ops/sec per cluster in 9.0), memory savings (up to 41%), and how to swap Redis for Valkey in Laravel caching, sessions, queues, and broadcasting with just an .env change. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Can I replace Redis with Valkey in my Laravel app without changing any code? Yes, Valkey is fully protocol-compatible with Redis OSS 7.2, so existing Laravel applications work without code changes. Switching only requires updating the REDIS_HOST value in the .env file from the Redis endpoint to the Valkey endpoint. Laravel's cache, session, queue, and broadcasting configurations continue working exactly as before. _Track drop-in datastore swaps like Valkey for Redis by following practical Laravel infrastructure guides on daily.dev._ ### How much of a performance improvement does Valkey 8.x offer over older Redis-compatible versions? Valkey 8.x delivers up to a 230% performance improvement over Valkey 7.2, supporting as many as 1.2 million operations per second per physical server with sub-millisecond latency. Valkey 9.0 extends this further, supporting up to 1 billion operations per second per cluster through features like atomic slot migrations and hash field expirations. _Developers comparing datastore throughput for scaling apps can follow performance benchmarks like these on daily.dev._ ### How much memory does Valkey save compared to older versions when storing small key-value pairs? Valkey achieves up to 41% total memory savings for small key-value pairs of around 16 bytes each, through a redesigned internal hash table structure. This comes from 19.7% memory savings introduced in Valkey 8.0, plus an additional 27% savings added in Valkey 8.1, letting teams store more data on the same infrastructure or reduce hosting costs. _Engineers sizing cache infrastructure can keep up with memory efficiency gains like these on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Valkey just had a 17x year. 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