Daily Digest & Task Scheduler

Building features is one thing. Automating insight delivery is where real applications shine.

In this episode, we wire up a Daily Digest Email system that automatically summarizes survey results and delivers them on a schedule—using real Laravel patterns you’ll use in production.

🚀 What You’ll Learn:
- Creating queued jobs for email delivery
- Building Markdown mailables
- Writing custom Artisan commands
- Scheduling recurring tasks with Laravel Scheduler
- Coordinating jobs, commands, and cron
- Production vs development scheduling workflows

🛠 Hands-On Topics:
- SendDigestEmailJob (queued background processing)
- SurveyDigest mailable with Markdown templates
- SendDigestEmails Artisan command
- Daily scheduling with schedule:run
- Cron configuration best practices
- Safe execution with withoutOverlapping() and onOneServer()

🧠 Why This Matters. This episode ties together:
- Jobs & queues
- Commands
- Task scheduling
- Email delivery
- Real-world automation patterns

Exactly how maintainable Laravel applications evolve beyond CRUD.

💥 About the Series:
Pragmatic Laravel focuses on building real applications with Laravel — emphasizing clarity, maintainability, and thoughtful design decisions instead of shortcuts or magic.

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