Laracasts Series

Intricacies of Sending an Invoice

Consider a task as simple as attaching an invoice to an email and sending it to a particular user. It's an incredibly common task, and yet, there are many, many steps involved. What should the invoice look like? How do you programmatically save it as a PDF? How do you attach it to an email? How might you test that the notification was properly sent?If you're interested, come along as I work on this very task for the Laracasts codebase.

Laravel Queue Mastery

With Mohamed Said

In this series, join Mohamed Said, from the Laravel core team, as he reviews the ins and outs of how to use Laravel's high-performance queue system to run any potentially long-running task asynchronously. You'll begin by dispatching your first job, and slowly work your way up to more complex configurations and deployment techniques.

Queue it Up

With Jeffrey Way

Learning about queues can be a daunting task. It's not fun to be met with confusing jargon that you can't decipher. But that's what I'm here for. Let's incrementally break it all down into small steps that anyone can understand. In no time, you'll be throwing delayed jobs onto the queue like a pro.