Laravel Queue Architecture: Designing Background Work That Holds Up

Part 2 of 4 — Laravel Architecture Patterns for Production ~9 min read · Queue design · Job architecture · Background processing Background jobs are one of those features that feel solved the moment they work. You dispatch, it runs in the background, life is good. The framework handles it. The illusion holds until scale arrives. Then a password reset email sits behind a 90-second video compression job. A job that hits a flaky external API fails, retries, fails, retries — consuming worker process