What is the difference between multiple workers vs multiple processes?

This is my understanding. Anyone feel free to correct me.

When you start one worker you setup connection ( redis, db, sqs... )

That said, multiple workers can have different setup for connection ( queue driver )

And when you set multiple processes for a single worker, than you may process more than one task from queue at the same time.

Someone experienced should correct/add if I am missing something.

EDIT: Here is stackoverflow answer. I beleive thats what I wrote up.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33211925/laravel-how-to-set-or-define-number-of-workers

So if I understand that correctly, I should only start a second worker if I have a different queue or driver or something along those lines?

If I want multiple "workers" on one queue I should instead just use one worker and multiple processes?

Thanks.

There is a good blog from ohdearapp on how to utilise your queue setup to scale your application

https://ohdear.app/blog/how-to-size-scale-your-laravel-queues

The summary points though are

• A queue per "type" of job you have
• Size the amount of workers for slow vs. fast workloads

@RYANMORTIER - Correct.