Ever watched your staging server just die? Mine did. Both CPUs at 100%, memory maxed, totally frozen.

The culprit? Laravel's scheduler running heavy jobs from production. Price exports, syncs, data crunches just hammering a tiny 2 vCPU droplet.

The fix: split your schedule() by environment. Run heavy jobs once daily on staging instead of hourly. Keep only essentials.

Result? CPU dropped from 100% to 20%. Staging responsive, production untouched.

Don't copy production schedules blindly.

dev.to/tegos/dont-let-your-staging-server-die-separate-task-scheduling-in-laravel-420o

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Previously we saw in Laravel 12.40.0 that queues got pause() & resume(). 🤞

In 12.40.2 it goes further with pauseFor(), pause a queue for a TTL (int seconds, DateTimeInterface, DateInterval) and let it auto resume. 💪

Minor version, big DX win. ⚡
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with AI writing code for you, things like strong typing, testing, and clean code matter more than ever..

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