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You Never Know When You Need a Fork - Lessons Learned Building Valkey

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Explore the challenges and lessons learned from building Valkey, a community-driven fork that emerged after Redis changed its licensing terms. Discover how AWS engineers Madelyn Olson and Roberto Luna Rojas navigated the hectic sprint to create a new home for an existing community, covering critical aspects like establishing governance structures, securing package inclusion in Linux distributions, and implementing proper GitHub configurations to prevent issues like tag deletions. Learn practical strategies for efficiently running large open source projects and gain insights that could prove invaluable when facing similar community-driven development challenges in the future.

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You Never Know When You Need a Fork: Lessons Learned Building... Madelyn Olson & Roberto Luna Rojas

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