Sound familiar?
- ▸ Redis 7.4 → Valkey 8 migration call stalled because legal won't sign off on the SSPL conflict but engineering can't commit to the ElastiCache cost arbitrage without a written decision.
- ▸ Sentinel vs Cluster mode debate cycling for weeks — the working set sometimes fits one node, sometimes doesn't, and the team can't agree on which topology to deploy first.
- ▸ ElastiCache Valkey TCO vs self-managed looks attractive on the slide deck, but nobody's modelled the DBA-labor and patch-cadence side of the equation, and the answer depends entirely on workload.
JusDB Valkey consultants give you the written decision document, not a Slack-thread opinion. Book an architecture review →
Strategic advisory — not execution
Valkey Consulting Services
Architecture decisions, migration strategy, and cost models for Valkey 8 — delivered as written recommendations and trade-off documentation, not as code-shipping engagements. Execution lives on dedicated pages: see migration, performance tuning, or remote DBA.
What our Valkey consulting covers
Each engagement deliverable is a written decision document, a sized topology proposal, or a costed trade-off analysis — never a Slack-thread recommendation.
Architecture Review
Topology audit (Sentinel vs Cluster), replica placement, persistence trade-offs, and a written remediation roadmap with priority and effort estimates.
Migration Strategy
Redis 7→Valkey 8 risk assessment, client compatibility audit, RDB/AOF replication strategy, and a decision framework — not a step-by-step runbook (that's /migration).
Cost Modeling
ElastiCache Redis vs Valkey TCO, self-managed vs managed break-even, reserved-instance sizing, and DBA-labor trade-off analysis with real numbers.
Memory & Eviction Policy
Working-set sizing, eviction policy selection (allkeys-lru, volatile-ttl, noeviction), and persistence (RDB/AOF) trade-off recommendations.
Capacity Planning
Growth modeling, shard count forecasting, and the working-set / hot-key analysis that determines whether you scale up or scale out.
Team Enablement
Operational playbooks for your team, on-call rotation guidance, and the runbooks that come with each architectural decision we recommend.
How a Valkey consulting engagement is shaped
Three engagement shapes, each with a different deliverable. We pick based on the decision you actually need to make.
1–2 weeks
Architecture Review
Deliverable
Topology recommendation, current-state risk register, sized remediation roadmap.
When to pick this
When you have a running Valkey/Redis fleet and want a second-opinion audit before scaling.
1 week
Migration Strategy
Deliverable
Risk-graded migration plan, client-compatibility matrix, cost & rollback analysis.
When to pick this
Before committing to a Redis→Valkey, ElastiCache→self-managed, or cross-region migration.
2–3 weeks
Greenfield Design
Deliverable
Topology spec, capacity model, persistence config, security baseline, ops runbook outline.
When to pick this
New Valkey deployment from scratch and you want production patterns from day one.