Laravel Worldwide Meetup - Queues, Jobs, and Workers: Building Resilient Background Processing

This month, Harris Raftopoulos joins us to share insights into effective background processing in a Laravel application.

If you’re using queues in Laravel, you already know how important background processing is - but running queues well is an entirely different story. In his talk Queues, Jobs, and Workers, Harris will show you how to build resilient queue systems that scale, survive failure, and recover gracefully. He’ll dive deep into retry strategies, worker scaling, job prioritization, and tools like Horizon to monitor it all. And yes, he might even take a fun ride through Artisan Amusements to explore these patterns visually. Whether you’re dispatching 10 jobs or 10,000, you’ll leave with practical strategies to strengthen your Laravel apps.

Timestamps:
2:32 - Introduction

3:19 - Community Resources:
https://laravel-news.com/ / https://podcast.laravel-news.com/ - Explore the Laravel News site & podcast for the latest updates and discussions
https://laravelpodcast.com/ - Laravel and PHP discussions with Matt Stauffer
https://larajobs.com/ - The official Laravel Job Board
https://laracasts.com - A great platform to check out to build your Laravel skills

4:49 - Events:
Laracon US - https://laracon.us - Late Tickets are still available - July 29 - 30 in Denver, CO
Laravel Live Denmark - Aug 21 - 22: https://laravellive.dk
Longhorn PHP - Oct 23 - 25: https://longhornphp.com
International PHP Conference - Oct 27 - 31: https://phpconference.com
GTA PHP User Group - https://www.meetup.com/gta-php-user-group-toronto
5:39 - Host Sponsor - Learn more at https://www.vehikl.com or reach out at go@vehikl.com
5:52 - JetBrains Giveaway - please use the QR code at the end of the meetup!
Enter anytime before August 5th for a chance to win one of two JetBrains coupons

6:15 - Harris Raftopoulos’ Introduction
7:35 - Harris’ slides begin
8:24 - Why do we use Queues?
12:00 - Laravel’s Queue system
25:24 - Testing
28:25 - Demo
32:45 - Monitoring with Horizon
45:28 - Common mistakes with failed jobs
Recommended Resources:
- Laravel Queues in Action Book (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55151414-laravel-queues-in-action)
50:00 - Q & A with Harris
1:02:55 - End slides

Thank you to our guest:
- Harris Raftopoulos, follow him on X (https://x.com/harrisrafto) & check out his website: https://www.harrisrafto.eu/ for more info on what he’s up to!

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Follow our co-hosts:
- Margaret Tavares on X (https://x.com/margarettavares) & LinkedIn
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/margarettavares/)
- Dan Soppelsa on X (https://x.com/dansoppelsa) & LinkedIn
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/dansoppelsa/)

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