jobs

Periodic jobs are common (cleanup, digests, rollups), and it’s easy to accidentally run them on every instance in production. In local dev, in-process node-cron is fine. In production, I either run a dedicated worker or add a guard so only one instanc

Queues offload time-consuming tasks to background workers, keeping web requests fast. I create job classes that implement the ShouldQueue interface and define a handle() method. Jobs are dispatched with dispatch() or Job::dispatch() and run asynchrono