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 processes while real work waits. A bulk operation dispatches 5,000 jobs at once and the queue system staggers under the spike. A crash halfway through a file operation leaves corrupted data you do not notice for three days. None of these are framework failures. They are design failures — decisions that were not made explicitly, so they defaulted to the wrong thing. This article is about the decisions, and the reasoning behind them.…