The post discusses Valkey's first year in comparison to Redis, underlining both positive community support and significant performance issues. Despite initial enthusiasm due to affordability on AWS, one user reported a major failure with Valkey, where it became unresponsive while AWS still indicated it was working. This incident raises concerns about Valkey's reliability for critical applications. To improve accessibility, users suggest integrating Valkey into default distribution package managers to streamline installation and usage for developers and CI/CD environments like GitHub Actions.