Everything on Queues.
19 articles tagged Queues, sorted newest first.
Scale Laravel Queue Workers to Zero and Back with KEDA
A worker blocked on Redis uses no CPU, so the HPA never scales it. Here is the KEDA ScaledObject that scales on queue depth instead — including scale-to-zero and the shutdown config that stops Kubernetes killing jobs.
PHP 8.6's Time\Duration: No More Guessing Whether That Timeout Is Seconds or Milliseconds
PHP 8.6 ships Time\Duration, a nanosecond-precision value object for stopwatch time. Here's the whole API, where it beats DateInterval, and how to bolt it onto a Laravel app whose framework still wants ints.
The Job That Ran Before the Row Existed: Dispatching Inside Laravel Transactions
A queued job throws ModelNotFoundException for a row that plainly exists. It is not a bug in the job — it is a worker that got there before your transaction committed.
Laravel Read Replicas: Route Reads to a Follower Without Serving Stale Data
The read/write split is four lines of config. The read-after-write bugs that turn up a fortnight later are the actual work — and sticky only covers one of them.
Generate Speech from Text in Laravel with the AI SDK's Audio Class
The Laravel AI SDK turns text-to-speech into four lines and hands you a Storage path instead of a byte string. Here is the whole surface — voices, queueing, serving — plus the hash cache that stops you paying twice for the same sentence.
Transcribe Audio in Laravel with the AI SDK: Uploads, Storage and Speaker Diarization
Transcription ships in the Laravel AI SDK with queueing, diarization and faking built in. Almost nobody knows it's there, so here's the whole path.
Migrate a Laravel App from Redis to Valkey Without Changing a Line of Code
A Laravel Valkey migration runbook: what actually differs, how to move the persisted data instead of cold-starting, and how to sequence cache, sessions and queues so a mistake costs a cache miss rather than a lost job.
Add a Docker HEALTHCHECK to a Laravel Queue Worker Container
A worker container reports Up 3 days while the queue backs up. Here's how to give Docker a real liveness signal for queue:work and Horizon.
Keep Laravel Queue Workers Alive with Supervisor in Production
A hand-started queue worker dies on the first fatal error or reboot. Here's the Supervisor config that keeps php artisan queue:work running for good.
Run Laravel AI SDK Agents in the Background with Queued Jobs
A synchronous AI call can tie up a PHP worker for half a minute. Here's how to run Laravel AI SDK agents on a queue and surface the result when it's done.
Laravel Context: Request Data That Follows Your Logs and Jobs
Stop threading a request ID through every log call. Laravel Context sets it once in middleware and follows the request into every queued job it dispatches.
Laravel Job Middleware — Rate-Limit and Back Off Queued Jobs at the Job Level
Stop sprinkling RateLimiter::attempt() inside your job classes. Laravel job middleware wraps handle() with rate limits, back-off, and circuit breakers — here's the full pattern.
Filament v4 Import and Export Actions: Built-in Bulk CSV Without a Plugin
A walkthrough of Filament v4's first-party ImportAction and ExportAction: Importer columns, the queued batch, failed-rows CSV, and the dialect tweaks Excel needs.
Laravel Queue Chains vs Batches: When to Pick Which
Bus::chain and Bus::batch solve different queue problems. Here's the decision framework and the combinations I reach for in production.
Clean Up Your Jobs Config With Laravel 13's Queue::route()
Laravel 13 adds Queue::route(): a single place in your service provider to declare which queue and connection every job class uses. Here's how it works.
Upgrading From Laravel 12 to Laravel 13: The Practical Guide
The Laravel 13 upgrade is mostly painless: but three config areas will silently change how your app behaves if you skip them. Here's what actually changed and what's worth adopting.
Stop Laravel Queue Workers from Leaking Memory with --max-jobs and --max-time
Laravel queue workers are long-running daemons: and daemons drift. Here's how to configure them to self-restart before they start misbehaving.
Scaling Laravel queues in production: Horizon, Redis, and multi-server workers
Queue tutorials stop at dispatch and queue:work. Here is everything else: the architecture, Horizon configuration, failure handling, and multi-server scaling that keeps production queues healthy under real traffic.
Monitoring Laravel queues in production with Horizon
Most teams install Horizon and leave it at its defaults. Here's the production configuration that actually gives you visibility into your queues.