RoadRunner

Spec sheet

Product

RoadRunner is a high-performance PHP application server, load balancer, and process manager written in Go.Read 30 Sep 2026 · roadrunner.dev

Security

The documentation describes RoadRunner as PCI DSS compliant.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

Support

The project directs users to GitHub issues and an active Discord community for feature requests and discussion.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

License

The documentation describes RoadRunner as open source and MIT licensed.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

Maker

The software was built and open sourced by Spiral Scout for the software development community.Read 30 Sep 2026 · github.com

Extensibility

RoadRunner can integrate Go libraries with PHP applications using the Goridge RPC protocol.Read 30 Sep 2026 · roadrunner.dev

Installation

Pre-built binaries are available for macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and an official Docker image is provided.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

Intended use

The documentation describes RoadRunner as designed to replace traditional Nginx plus PHP-FPM setups.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

Key-value stores

Key-value drivers include Redis, Memcached, BoltDB, and in-memory storage.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

Observability

RoadRunner supports OpenTelemetry through gRPC, HTTP, and Jaeger protocols and provides a metrics server.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

Open source

RoadRunner is open-source, MIT licensed, written in Go, and powered with plugins.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

Origin

Spiral Scout launched in 2010, and RoadRunner was released as its second open-source product in 2018.Read 30 Sep 2026 · spiralscout.com

Performance

RoadRunner uses Golang goroutines and multithreading to speed up PHP processing and reduce server load.Read 30 Sep 2026 · roadrunner.dev

PHP compatibility

Applications using PHP 7 or higher can integrate with RoadRunner without installing extensions.Read 30 Sep 2026 · roadrunner.dev

PHP requirement

The features page says applications using PHP 7 or higher can integrate with RoadRunner without installing extensions to make RoadRunner work.Read 30 Sep 2026 · roadrunner.dev

Protocols

RoadRunner supports PSR-7 and PSR-17 compatible HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and FastCGI servers.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

Queues

Queue drivers include RabbitMQ, Kafka, Amazon SQS, Beanstalk, NATS, and in-memory queues.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

Supported platforms

The homepage says RoadRunner binaries can be downloaded or compiled for Mac OS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and ARM.Read 30 Sep 2026 · roadrunner.dev

Target use

RoadRunner is described as production-ready for massive enterprise-level projects experiencing heavy loads.Read 30 Sep 2026 · roadrunner.dev

Worker model

RoadRunner keeps PHP workers alive between requests, which can eliminate framework initialization time on subsequent requests.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

Workflow integration

RoadRunner provides a workflows engine through Temporal.Read 30 Sep 2026 · docs.roadrunner.dev

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