Here's yet another example of how I got burned when my local dev environment didn't match my prod environment. Sync queues work differently than other queue types.

masteringlaravel.io/daily/2024-08-06-sync-queue-works-differently-than-async

Good tip! Curious how you wrote a test for it? 😊

Actually, the tip should be not to serialize models in asynchronous queues.
Takes up to much memory with Redis.

Serialization isn't 100% accurate here since Laravel only stores Eloquent model IDs and re-hydrates from the database. But the problem is the same: you lose access to in-memory change state.

It does do that? I remember it differently. It was i believe Mohammed Said (Mr. Queues) who suggested to only pass the ID of the model and never serialize the model in a job.

You'd rather have job middleware or some method in your job that checks, if you still need to handle the job