What is Laravel advanced session management in distributed systems?

Session management in distributed systems requires centralized storage like Redis or database to keep sessions consistent across multiple servers.

In distributed Laravel deployments, file-based sessions break because requests are handled by multiple servers. To solve this, sessions are stored in centralized stores like Redis, Memcached, or databases. This ensures session consistency regardless of which server handles the request. Session fixation, expiration, and concurrency control are also important considerations.