Processing Jobs with Laravel Queues

Laravel queues allow you to defer the processing of a time-consuming task, such as sending an email, until a later time. Deferring these tasks drastically speeds up web requests to your application.

#Configuration & Drivers

To get started, you configure your queue connection information in config/queue.php. Laravel supports various queue backends (drivers):

Database
Redis
Beanstalkd
Amazon SQS
Sync (for local development)

You choose the driver that best suits your application needs.

#Creating & Dispatching Jobs

Jobs are simple PHP classes that represent the task to be queued. You can generate a new job using Artisan:

php artisan make:job ProcessPodcast

Inside the job’s handle method, you place the logic for the task. Dispatching a job to the queue is straightforward:

use App\Jobs\ProcessPodcast;

// Dispatch the job to the default queue
ProcessPodcast::dispatch($podcast);

// Dispatch to a specific queue
ProcessPodcast::dispatch($podcast)->onQueue('podcasts');

// Delay execution
ProcessPodcast::dispatch($podcast)->delay(now()->addMinutes(10));