--- title: Laravel Queues Under the Hood | daily.dev description: Laravel's queue system transforms slow, unreliable tasks into fast, reliable workflows by moving work off the request cycle. The system follows a pipeline:... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-queues-under-the-hood-6mj7492j1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Laravel Queues Under the Hood | daily.dev og:description: Laravel's queue system transforms slow, unreliable tasks into fast, reliable workflows by moving work off the request cycle. 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Redis uses lists and sorted sets for main queues, delayed jobs, and reserved jobs with visibility timeouts. Workers run as long-lived processes that handle job lifecycle, retries, and failures. Advanced features include job chains for sequential execution, batches for parallel processing with progress tracking, unique jobs, and overlapping prevention through cache locks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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