– oussama-mater.tech - submitted by Oussama Mater
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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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.
Read more [flareapp.io]
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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.
Read more [github.com]
– nabilhassen.com - submitted by Nabil Hassen
Laravel 12.35 introduces the deferred queue driver, allowing queued jobs to run right after the HTTP response is sent.
Read more [nabilhassen.com]
– nabilhassen.com - submitted by Nabil Hassen
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.
Read more [nabilhassen.com]
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.
Read more [martinjoo.dev]
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
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
Read more [youtu.be]
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Read about how to encrypt queued jobs, notifications, mailables, and listeners in Laravel for improved security.
Read more [ashallendesign.co.uk]
A nice intro into using Postgres as your queuing solution, and some nice thoughts abou the importance of scale.
Read more [adriano.fyi]
– fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
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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Tim MacDonald wrote a nice post on how to handle duplicate requests.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
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.
Read more [workerless.run]
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
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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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%.
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
– protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet
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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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.
The Queue class contains a method named createPayloadUsing which allows you to register a callback that is executed when creating job payloads.
Read more [james.brooks.page]
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.
Read more [divinglaravel.com]
My colleague Alex recently fixed a strange problem with Redis.
Read more [alexvanderbist.com]
On his blog, Robin Dirksen shares how he migrated the files of his app to S3
Read more [robindirksen.nl]
