Redis-backed permissions for high-volume Laravel apps: v4.0.0-beta.1

I just shipped v4.0.0-beta.1 of laravel-permissions-redis , and I want to share both what's in it and the specific problem it exists to solve. The problem Spatie's laravel-permission is the de-facto permissions package in the Laravel ecosystem and it's great. But it was designed for the common case: users have roles, roles have permissions, you check them a handful of times per request, you hit the DB, everyone's happy. What happens when you scale that model? An admin panel rendering 200+ ACL-ga