Queues
- Introduction
- Creating Jobs
- Job Middleware
- Dispatching Jobs
- Job Batching
- Queueing Closures
- Running the Queue Worker
- Supervisor Configuration
- Dealing With Failed Jobs
- Clearing Jobs From Queues
- Monitoring Your Queues
- Testing
- Job Events
Introduction
While building your web application, you may have some tasks, such as parsing and storing an uploaded CSV file, that take too long to perform during a typical web request. Thankfully, Laravel allows you to easily create queued jobs that may be processed in the background. By moving time intensive tasks to a queue, your application can respond to web requests with blazing speed and provide a better user experience to your customers.
Laravel queues provide a unified queueing API across a variety of different queue backends, such as Amazon SQS, Redis, or even a relational database.
Laravel's queue configuration options are stored in your application's config/queue.php configuration file. In this file, you will find connection configurations for each of the queue drivers that are included with the framework, including the database, Amazon SQS, Redis, and Beanstalkd drivers, as well as a synchronous driver that will execute jobs immediately (for use during development or testing). A