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2026-08-20 10:13
igbinary: half the Redis memory for one line of config
Everything PHP stores in Redis gets serialized first: sessions, cache entries, queued jobs. PHP's native serialize() produces a verbose text format, and most of us never think about it. igbinary is a PHP extension that swaps in a compact binary format instead, and you enable it with one config line, your code does not change.
I benchmarked it properly on a Laravel app (PHP 8.4, phpredis 6.3, Redi...
