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The Queue class contains a method named createPayloadUsing which allows you to register a callback that is executed when creating job payloads.

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If you're running your queue workers on a server with limited resources, or a server that's also used to serve HTTP requests and do other tasks, it's important to ration the resource used by those workers.

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My colleague Alex recently fixed a strange problem with Redis.

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On his blog, Robin Dirksen shares how he migrated the files of his app to S3

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In this post Mohamed Said shared the possible ways to switch between drivers.

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Mohamed Said wrote a good post on how the shiny new batching functionality works in Laravel 8

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Learn how to track and visualize a chain of queued jobs in Laravel using a custom trait, job middleware, and Laravel Livewire.

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In this series of video tweets, Mohammend Said explains some of the most confusing Queue configuration keys.

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In an awesome series of video tweets, Mohammed Said explains some of the most confusing Queue configuration keys.

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Our team at Spatie released new package called laravel-queuable-action. On his blog, my colleague Brent explains why we created it and how you can use it.

By introducing the concept of actions, we're able to separate responsibilities between classes better: jobs are used for data serialisation and executing tasks asynchronously; but they are not concerned with business logic anymore.

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TIL #Laravel's clear:cache command has an optional "store" argument. This makes it really easy to quickly clear out the 3700 queued jobs you don't want to wait for. pic.twitter.com/dz0csvR3Ht

— Alex (@AlexVanderbist) January 31, 2019

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My buddy Mattias and I run a monitoring service called Oh Dear! We plan on regularly writing cool stuff on the technical and commericial challenges we face. Here's the first post on how we scale our queues.

Laravel offers a convenient way to create asynchronous background tasks using its queues. We utilize those heavily at Oh Dear! for all our monitoring jobs and in this post we'll share some of our lessons learned and what we consider to be best practices.

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Dries Vints, maintainer of Laravel.io, posted a step-by-step guide on how to get started with Laravel Horizon on a Forge provisioned server.

I recently installed Horizon for Laravel.io and while it wasn’t that hard to install, I still had to figure some things out. Since this was the first time setting everything up I thought I’d write up the steps to take to get started with Horizon and set everything up with Forge and Envoyer.

https://medium.com/@driesvints/laravel-horizon-with-forge-and-envoyer-82a7e819d69f

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On his blog Frank De Jonge, member of the PHP League and creator of Flysystem, explains a cool pragmatic solution how to ensure queued processes for the same user complete in the right order.

The use of multiple workers allows for much higher throughput, but it also allows for race conditions during processing. When messages for the same user are sent to different workers, handling order can no longer be guaranteed. Therefore we have failed to fulfil our business rule.

If we were able to ensure every message from the same user were sent to the same worker, the worker could ensure those messages are handled in order while the system as a whole would still benefit from the degree of parallelism. But how do we make this happen?

https://blog.frankdejonge.nl/parallelise-synchronous-business-processes/

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Laravel Horizon is a kickass dashboard for viewing queued jobs. Co-creator Mohammed Said published two posts about the inner working of the tool. The first one on the Diving Laravel site highlights the overall configuration and how the master supervisor works.

Laravel Horizon is a queue manager that gives you full control over your queues, it provides means to configure how your jobs are processed, generate analytics, and perform different queue-related tasks from within a nice dashboard.

In this dive we're going to learn how Horizon boots up and handles processing jobs using different workers as well as how it collects useful metrics for you to have the full picture of how your application dispatches and runs jobs.

https://divinglaravel.com/horizon/before-the-dive

The second one, published on his own blog, shows how queued jobs can get tagged.

Laravel Horizon is shipped with many amazing features that help you understand what goes on with your queue workers, my personal favorite feature is the ability to tag jobs for further investigation.

https://themsaid.com/tagging-jobs-in-laravel-horizon-20170731

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Mohammed Said, Laravel employee #1 and diver, explains how you can avoid pushing unnecessary jobs to a queue.

How many customers will reach the 10K purchase milestone? does it make sense to push a Job to queue for every single purchase while there's a huge chance that this job will just do nothing at all? IMHO this is a waste of resources, you might end up filling your queue with thousands of unnecessary jobs.

It might be a good thing if we can check for that condition before queueing the listener.

http://themsaid.com/conditionally-queue-listeners-laravel-20170505/

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