OpenAI runs Valkey as the cache behind a billion ChatGPT users. You won't build Habitat with two engineers and Codex - but if you run the same cache, here's how BetterDB makes operating it better: persisted slowlog and latency, hot-key and connection-storm detection, ACL auditing, and CVE scanning.
The most valuable work we did this week was also the least tweetable: patching CVEs nobody will ever see, halving our Docker image, and fixing build-pipeline plumbing. No AI, no new features - just the unglamorous work that separates a demo from something you can run at 3am. Here's what we did, and why we keep choosing it over the shiny thing.
The teams that most need deep database observability are often the ones that can't send a single packet to the outside world. BetterDB Monitor 0.28.0 runs fully air-gapped: signed licenses, local verification, zero phone-home. This post covers how it works and the honest trade-offs.