📦 My Redis Payload Was Too Large, So I Just Gzipped It

<p>A while ago I started getting this error in production: <strong>"payload too large"</strong>. The culprit was a Redis value that kept growing, a big JSON of vehicle data that we cache and read all the time.</p> <p>My first thought was to bump the limit. My second thought was: why am I storing this much text in the first place? JSON is super repetitive. Same keys, over and over, for thousands of

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