Valkey introduces GLIDE 2.0 with support for Go, OpenTelemetry, and pipeline batching
AWS, in partnership with Google and the Valkey community, announces general availability of General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise (GLIDE) 2.0, the latest release of one of its official open source Valkey client libraries. Valkey is the most permissive open source alternative to Redis stewarded by the Linux Foundation, which means it will always be open source. Valkey GLIDE is a reliable, high-performance, multi-language client that supports all Valkey commands. GLIDE 2.0 brings new capabilities that expand developer support, improve observability, and optimize performance for high-throughput workloads.
Valkey GLIDE 2.0 extends its multi-language support to Go (contributed by Google), joining Java, Python, and Node.js to provide a consistent, fully compatible API experience across all four languages—with more on the way. With this release, Valkey GLIDE now supports OpenTelemetry, an open source, vendor-neutral framework enabling developers to generate, collect, and export telemetry data and critical client-side performance insights. Additionally, GLIDE 2.0 introduces batching capabilities, reducing network overhead and latency for high-frequency use cases by allowing multiple commands to be grouped and executed as a single operation.
Valkey GLIDE is compatible with versions 7.2, 8.0 and 8.1 of Valkey, as well as versions 6.2, 7.0, and 7.2 of Redis OSS. Valkey GLIDE 2.0 is available now through the Valkey repository on GitHub. For more information about Valkey’s official client libraries, visit the Valkey website.