Articles Tagged: queues
Technical writings, opinionated architectures, and development guides tagged with queues.
The Second Pattern: Claim Check
A payload that is 40KB almost always and 12MB occasionally cannot be sized for. Making it smaller is not the fix, because the problem is the channel it is moving through.
The Second Pattern: Transactional Outbox
Commit then notify loses messages. Notify then commit sends lies. The dual write problem has no clever solution, and Tempest ships more of the machinery than it advertises.
Building Research
A desktop research workspace in Laravel and NativePHP. Streaming SSE into a queued job, distilling reports with a local model, and why cosine similarity cannot tell a paraphrase from a contradiction.
The Job And The Controller Disagree
The same operation runs from two entry points and they have quietly drifted. In Laravel that drift has a predictable shape, because validation lives at the edge and only one edge has it.
Queues you can pause and buckets you can walk away from
Two weeks of Laravel 13: a read-through filesystem driver for zero-downtime storage migrations, a global queue pause switch, debounced listeners, and Redis cluster fixes worth upgrading for.
Dockerizing Laravel queues, workers, and schedulers
Learn to containerize Laravel queues, workers, and schedulers for production with isolation and scalability.