Jobs, Queues, and Workers

As your application grows, long-running work doesn’t belong in the request cycle.

In this lesson, we take a deep, practical dive into Laravel Jobs & Queues by moving survey email notifications into background workers. You’ll learn not just how queues work — but when and why to use them, and how to operate them confidently in production.

No hand-waving. No “just install Redis and hope.”
This is queues the way real applications use them.


🎯 What We Cover:
- Refactors & cleanup from the email implementation
- Why queues exist (architecture & scalability)
- Choosing queue drivers for dev vs production
- Managing queue workers locally and in production
- Supervisor configuration for long-running workers
- Monitoring with Horizon, Pulse, and Telescope
- Handling failures, retries, delays, and backoff
- Creating and dispatching a real job
- Job chaining, batching, and advanced queue features


🧠 Hands-On Implementation - You’ll build and dispatch a real job:
- SendSurveyInviteJob
- Retry and backoff strategies
- Sync vs async dispatching
- Delayed and deferred jobs
- Error handling and manual failures

All wired directly into the survey invite workflow.

🕒 Up Next - Scheduling Tasks & Jobs:
- Laravel Scheduler
- Automated notifications
- Time-based workflows

💥 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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