diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index d2a0e96a..64895b75 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ my %WriteMakefileArgs = (
     "Alien::uPB::Core" => 0,
     "Check::UnitCheck" => 0,
     "Class::Method::Modifiers" => 0,
+    "Compress::Zstd" => "0.20",
     "Config::Any" => "0.33",
     "Devel::MAT::Dumper" => 0,
     "Future" => "0.50",
@@ -113,6 +114,7 @@ my %FallbackPrereqs = (
   "Alien::uPB::Core" => 0,
   "Check::UnitCheck" => 0,
   "Class::Method::Modifiers" => 0,
+  "Compress::Zstd" => "0.20",
   "Config::Any" => "0.33",
   "Devel::MAT::Dumper" => 0,
   "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" => 0,
diff --git a/cpanfile b/cpanfile
index 7bedab61..a693eedf 100644
--- a/cpanfile
+++ b/cpanfile
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ requires 'Getopt::Long';
 requires 'Pod::Usage';
 requires 'List::Util', '>= 1.63';
 requires 'List::Keywords', '>= 0.11';
+requires 'Compress::Zstd', '>= 0.20';
 # Integration
 requires 'Net::Async::OpenTracing', '>= 1.001';
 requires 'Log::Any::Adapter::OpenTracing', '>= 0.001';
diff --git a/lib/Myriad/Registry.pm b/lib/Myriad/Registry.pm
index 29ed804d..99812b57 100644
--- a/lib/Myriad/Registry.pm
+++ b/lib/Myriad/Registry.pm
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Registers a new batch method for the given class.
 method add_batch ($pkg, $method, $code, $args) {
     $batch{$pkg}{$method} = {
         code => $code,
-        args => $args,
+        args => $args || {},
     };
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/Myriad/Service/Attributes.pm b/lib/Myriad/Service/Attributes.pm
index fe5f47af..0620ed81 100644
--- a/lib/Myriad/Service/Attributes.pm
+++ b/lib/Myriad/Service/Attributes.pm
@@ -97,6 +97,16 @@ sub rpc {
 Mark this as an async method which should be called repeatedly to generate
 arrayref batches of data.
 
+Takes the following parameters as a hashref:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item * C<compress> - compress all data, regardless of size
+
+=item * C<compress_threshold> - compress any data which would be larger than the given size after encoding, in bytes
+
+=back
+
  field $id = 0;
  async method example_batch : Batch {
   return [ ++$id ];
@@ -119,6 +129,16 @@ sub batch {
 Indicates a method which should be called on startup, which given a
 L<Ryu::Sink> will emit events to that sink until it's done.
 
+Takes the following parameters as a hashref:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item * C<compress> - compress all data, regardless of size
+
+=item * C<compress_threshold> - compress any data which would be larger than the given size after encoding, in bytes
+
+=back
+
 =cut
 
 sub emitter {
diff --git a/lib/Myriad/Service/Implementation.pm b/lib/Myriad/Service/Implementation.pm
index f1f71ead..b8c49bae 100644
--- a/lib/Myriad/Service/Implementation.pm
+++ b/lib/Myriad/Service/Implementation.pm
@@ -255,10 +255,12 @@ async method load () {
             });
 
             await $self->subscription->create_from_source(
-                source  => $spec->{src}->pause,
-                channel => $chan,
-                service => $service_name,
-                max_len => $spec->{args}{max_len},
+                source             => $spec->{src}->pause,
+                channel            => $chan,
+                service            => $service_name,
+                max_len            => $spec->{args}{max_len},
+                compress           => $spec->{args}{compress},
+                compress_threshold => $spec->{args}{compress_threshold},
             );
         }
     }
@@ -288,12 +290,16 @@ async method load () {
     if (my $batches = $registry->batches_for(ref($self))) {
         for my $method (sort keys $batches->%*) {
             $log->tracef('Adding Batch %s for %s', $method, $service_name);
-            my $sink = $batches->{$method}{sink} = $ryu->sink(label => 'batch:' . $method);
+            my $spec = $batches->{$method};
+            my $sink = $spec->{sink} = $ryu->sink(label => 'batch:' . $method);
             $sink->pause;
             await $self->subscription->create_from_source(
-                source  => $sink->source,
-                channel => $method,
-                service => $service_name,
+                source             => $sink->source,
+                channel            => $method,
+                service            => $service_name,
+                max_len            => $spec->{args}{max_len},
+                compress           => $spec->{args}{compress},
+                compress_threshold => $spec->{args}{compress_threshold},
             );
         }
     }
diff --git a/lib/Myriad/Subscription/Implementation/Redis.pm b/lib/Myriad/Subscription/Implementation/Redis.pm
index 2583a774..ec0511e7 100644
--- a/lib/Myriad/Subscription/Implementation/Redis.pm
+++ b/lib/Myriad/Subscription/Implementation/Redis.pm
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use Myriad::Class ':v2', extends => qw(IO::Async::Notifier), does => [
 # AUTHORITY
 
 use Myriad::Util::UUID;
+use Compress::Zstd ();
 use OpenTelemetry::Context;
 use OpenTelemetry::Trace;
 use OpenTelemetry::Constants qw( SPAN_STATUS_ERROR SPAN_STATUS_OK );
@@ -57,9 +58,12 @@ async method create_from_source (%args) {
             # we will make "check_for_overflow" aware about this stream after the service has started
             await $src->map($self->$curry::weak(method ($event) {
                 $log->tracef('Subscription source %s adding an event: %s', $stream, $event);
+                my $data = encode_json_utf8($event);
                 return $redis->xadd(
                     encode_utf8($stream) => '*',
-                    data => encode_json_utf8($event),
+                    ($args{compress} || (defined $args{compress_threshold} and length($data) > $args{compress_threshold}))
+                    ? (zstd => Compress::Zstd::compress($data))
+                    : (data => $data)
                 );
             }))->ordered_futures(
                 low => 100,
diff --git a/lib/Myriad/Transport/Redis.pm b/lib/Myriad/Transport/Redis.pm
index 689f9545..d2653a2d 100644
--- a/lib/Myriad/Transport/Redis.pm
+++ b/lib/Myriad/Transport/Redis.pm
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ It should also cover retry for stateless calls.
 =cut
 
 use Class::Method::Modifiers qw(:all);
+use Compress::Zstd ();
 use Sub::Util qw(subname);
 
 use Myriad::Redis::Pending;
@@ -271,6 +272,7 @@ async method read_from_stream (%args) {
         my ($stream, $data) = $batch->@*;
         return map {
             my ($id, $args) = $_->@*;
+            $args->{data} = Compress::Zstd::decompress($args->{zstd}) if exists $args->{zstd};
             +{
                 stream => $self->remove_prefix($stream),
                 id     => $id,