Stop Crashing Your Server: Prevent Laravel Cron Collisions 🛑

The Overlapping Cron Catastrophe In B2B SaaS applications, background tasks are the heartbeat of your system. You rely on cron jobs to sync external APIs, generate daily billing reports, and purge stale database records. When starting out, a command scheduled to run every 5 minutes ( everyFiveMinutes() ) works flawlessly. But scale introduces a terrifying variable: execution time. What happens when your "5-minute API sync" processes so much data that it takes 7 minutes to complete? Your server f