0073-laravel-queue-patterns

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you avoid unreliable and duplicate background processing in Laravel queues by standardizing job dispatching, execution safety, and failure handling.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Job structure & lifecycle: Design queued jobs with proper traits, handle() logic, and a failed() method for cleanup and notifications (e.g., marking an order as failed).
• Dispatch patterns with transaction safety: Use delay(), dispatchIf/Unless(), and especially afterCommit() to prevent jobs from running before database commits.
• Operational resilience: Add middleware for rate limiting, overlap prevention, and exception throttling; use chaining, batching, and uniqueness to manage complex workflows (e.g., sequential payment steps or parallel CSV chunk processing).
• Correctness under retries: Configure retries (tries, retryUntil, backoff, timeout) and implement idempotency so jobs remain safe even when run multiple times.

Quick Start

Use this Skill to implement Laravel queue best practices for an order/payment system so jobs dispatch after commits, run with overlap and rate protections, and update state correctly on retries and failures.