Laravel Fuse is a circuit breaker package for Laravel queue jobs. When an external service like Stripe or Mailgun goes down, instead of letting thousands of jobs timeout (30s each), the circuit opens after a configurable failure threshold and jobs fail instantly. It supports three-state circuit breaking (closed/open/half-open), intelligent failure classification (429s and auth errors do not trip the circuit), peak hours config, and a built-in status page.
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One question at a conference became a $50K a month one-person business
A nice profile of Jason McCreary and how Laravel Shift grew into a one-person business doing about $50K MRR. The most interesting bit is how raising prices, slowly and deliberately, turned it from a side Read more…