You spot this in your logs and it looks alarming. It reads like a database problem, but it is really a symptom of a queue misconfiguration. On...

Picture a multi tenant app with one shared queue. Most of the time it hums along. Then one tenant kicks off a bulk import and dispatches forty...

A queue worker sounds mysterious until you see what it actually is: a plain PHP process running in the background, pulling jobs out of storage...

A queue worker is a long lived process that booted your application once and keeps it in memory. That is what makes it fast, and it is also wh...

Restarting workers belongs in every deploy script, because workers run the code they booted with. The command is simple. But sometimes you run...

A queued job is not normal code. It gets serialized, stored, shipped to another process, unserialized, and only then run, perhaps instantly, p...

When you dispatch a job, its payload is stored in plain, serialized text in your queue store. For most jobs that is fine. But if a job carries...

Queued event listeners are great for moving slow work off the request. But there is an easy way to waste your queue: pushing a listener for ev...

Job batching lets you dispatch a group of jobs to run in parallel across your workers, then run code when the whole group finishes or when one...

Sometimes one job needs to run several times, spaced out, until a condition is met. The trick is a job that re-queues itself with release(). L...