▸ Blog series
Async & Messaging
Queues, brokers, and event-driven patterns — how to move the heavy work off the request path without losing data.
- 01
Synchronous vs asynchronous communication
The technical differences between synchronous and asynchronous architectures in Laravel and Shopify, and how queues, jobs, and webhooks help you scale.
Architecture · 7 min read - 02
Message queues for heavy-duty document processing
Stop running embeddings in the request cycle. Build a document pipeline on message queues with staged workers, retries, dead-letter queues, and autoscaling.
Architecture · 7 min read - 03
Scaling with RabbitMQ: why message brokers matter
Synchronous controllers are how monoliths die. RabbitMQ exchanges and queues, the strangler pattern for going async, and idempotent Laravel workers.
Architecture · 6 min read - 04
Event-driven architecture with Google Pub/Sub
Decouple your services or drown in latency. Topics, fan-out, push vs pull, dead-letter queues, and idempotent consumers in a Laravel Pub/Sub blueprint.
Architecture · 7 min read