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Queues keep your website quick by moving emails, reports and imports out of the visitor's way. Here is how they work and when to use them.
Nobody likes to wait while a page sends an email or builds a report. With Laravel queues, the visitor gets an instant response and the heavy work happens in the background.
How it works
Your code "dispatches" a job, which is stored in a queue (a database table, Redis or Amazon SQS). A separate worker process picks jobs up one by one and runs them.
Great uses for queues
- Sending transactional and marketing emails
- Generating invoices, PDFs and exports
- Importing large CSV files
- Resizing images and processing uploads
- Calling slow third-party APIs
Built-in safety nets
Failed jobs are recorded and can be retried. You can set how many attempts a job gets, add delays between retries and decide what happens when it finally fails.
Keeping workers running
In production a process manager such as Supervisor keeps the worker alive. For Redis queues, Laravel Horizon adds a dashboard with throughput and failure statistics.
The bottom line
Queues are one of the easiest ways to make an application feel faster and more reliable. We set them up as standard on every Laravel project that sends email or handles files.
