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ShouldBeUnique and the lock that outlives the job

One warehouse stopped syncing and every other warehouse is fine. Nothing is in failed_jobs, because the job was never queued — a lock nobody released is still holding its key.

Sep 23, 2026

QUEUES / 7 MIN

Why the same job ran twice: timeout vs retry_after

A customer gets charged twice for one order, or receives the same email three times. Nothing threw an error. The job didn't fail. Two different workers just quietly processed the same job at the same time, because retry_after was shorter than the job's own timeout.

Sep 8, 2026

QUEUES / 8 MIN

Why your job runs before the data it depends on exists

You dispatch a job from inside a database transaction, expecting it to find the record it needs. On a fast queue driver, the worker sometimes picks the job up before the transaction has actually committed — and hits a row that isn't there yet.

Sep 7, 2026

QUEUES / 7 MIN

Why your job can't find the model it was dispatched with

You dispatch a job with an Eloquent model, it runs an hour later, and it throws a ModelNotFoundException — because the record was deleted in between. Here's how model serialization in queued jobs actually works, and the assumptions it's easy to get wrong.

Sep 1, 2026

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Why your queued jobs keep failing silently

A job throws an exception, gets retried a few times, and quietly lands in a failed_jobs table nobody's watching. Here's how to make failures loud, retries safe, and workers actually stay alive after a deploy.

Aug 29, 2026