Posts tagged with queues
This post explains why Laravel queue workers and Horizon supervisors each keep their own compiled copy of your app in memory, and how that adds up fast on smaller servers. It also introduces queue-prefork, a package that shares opcache across forked workers and dramatically cuts memory usage without changing job throughput.
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– standaniels.nl – Edit
Stan Daniels shares a practical checklist for tuning Laravel Horizon, from aligning timeouts and retry_after values to verifying deploy hooks and measuring real queue behavior before adding workers. It is a good reminder that queue performance issues often come down to configuration clarity and instrumentation, not just scaling up blindly.
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Below MySQL 8.0.1, or on a server Laravel misreads, workers reserve jobs with a plain FOR UPDATE and can deadlock on the DELETE. One tinker line shows which lock yours use.
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– gummibeer.dev – Edit
A thoughtful write-up on adding logarithmic auto-scaling to Laravel Horizon. It shows how log-based weighting keeps huge queue spikes from starving smaller realtime queues while still giving large backlogs enough workers.
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– oussama-mater.tech - submitted by Oussama Mater – Edit
Laravel queues are great out of the box, until they bite. Over the years I’ve collected a few gotchas the hard way. Let me save you the headache.
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– flareapp.io – Edit
The Flare team explains how they built end-to-end integration tests for their Laravel package using a real Testbench workbench app, HTTP server, and queue worker. The post also shows how they swapped the sender to write payloads to disk, then built helpers to assert traces, errors, and async job behavior.
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– github.com – Edit
Laravel Fuse is a circuit breaker package for Laravel queue jobs. When an external service like Stripe or Mailgun goes down, instead of letting thousands of jobs timeout (30s each), the circuit opens after a configurable failure threshold and jobs fail instantly. It supports three-state circuit breaking (closed/open/half-open), intelligent failure classification (429s and auth errors do not trip the circuit), peak hours config, and a built-in status page.
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– nabilhassen.com - submitted by Nabil Hassen – Edit
Laravel 12.35 introduces the deferred queue driver, allowing queued jobs to run right after the HTTP response is sent.
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– nabilhassen.com - submitted by Nabil Hassen – Edit
The new scout:queue-import command splits your model’s ID range into chunks and queues jobs for each, enabling faster indexing of large datasets.
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– martinjoo.dev – Edit
Marin Joo covers configuring Supervisor to manage worker processes, including defining commands, scaling, and logging. He also explores using multiple queues and prioritizing them to optimize worker usage.
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– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef – Edit
This simple step-by-step guide teaches you how to deploy your Laravel project to Laravel Cloud! We'll cover everything from setup to handling queues for background tasks.
What you'll learn: ✅ Deploying a Laravel project to the cloud ✅ Setting up and managing queues ✅ Optimizing performance for scalability
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– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen – Edit
Read about how to encrypt queued jobs, notifications, mailables, and listeners in Laravel for improved security.
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– adriano.fyi – Edit
A nice intro into using Postgres as your queuing solution, and some nice thoughts abou the importance of scale.
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– fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao – Edit
Utilize the best parts of any language to perform work for your Laravel app! Any language can and push and pull jobs to/from Laravel queues. Here's how.
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– timacdonald.me – Edit
Tim MacDonald wrote a nice post on how to handle duplicate requests.
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– workerless.run – Edit
With Workerless you can configure the maximum concurrency across multiple queues and control the queue prioritization on AWS. This tool and beautiful website was created by Mohamed Said.
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– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta – Edit
Using queues in @laravelphp is great ... unless the queue has silently failed and you didn't even know about it 🚨 I'm going to show you a simple and lightweight strategy to notify you when a queue isn't processing jobs.
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– jasonmccreary.me – Edit
Earlier this week Jason McCreary deployed a feature which automatically spawns new worker servers for Shift based on the job queue workload. This reduced server costs by 97% and wait times by 80%.
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– protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet – Edit
In this fourth post of the series, I've gathered new features added to Jobs and Queues in Laravel 8. Since the original release of 8.0 back in September 2020, Jobs and Queues got a bunch of significant updates that you don't want to miss.
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by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read – Edit
I'm proud to announce yet another package by our team: spatie/laravel-interacts-with-payload. This one, which was inspired by a blog post by James Brooks, can inject data in all your jobs with just one line of code.
In this video, you'll see the package in action, I explain the internals and the tests. If you prefer reading, continue below the video.
