Chris Nwamba has written a new tutorial about Laravel Queues.

You can learn more about email queues with Mailtrap and download the demo source code.

Laravel was the fastest tool I learned and I did that in a week with just a basic knowledge of PHP. Do not get me wrong but it was quite ironical to me. I saw my self as a C# master back in the days until I picked up ASP.Net and lost 15% of my weight in the first week learning it with all seriousness.

I only knew the basics of PHP before picking up Laravel and it was so simple I practiced with popcorn on my desk.

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One of the reasons why it is so easy to use, is not because of the simplicity of the language it was built with which is PHP but the amount of love and care, I repeat, love and care put in to make Laravel. When I listened to Jefferey at a Laracon conference, he used the same word, care. I was questioning my subconscious on how code is written with care but by the end of his presentation I got his point.

Otwell took his time to build Laravel and it's documentation and one of the major features that really amaze me is what we are going to experiment with, Queues.

Queues in Laravel are used to make a smooth sailing application cycle by stacking heavy tasks to be handled as jobs and dispatching these jobs when it is asked to or when it does not disrupt the user's experience.

Let's assume you have a 12 year old kid named Bill and you decide to send him to a store across the road. At the same time Uncle A is asking him to get him some water and Uncle B is requesting a pen from him. That's not all; his dog Spike wants some food urgently. Bill has to complete all these tasks.

As Bill's dad/mum, if you let Bill run off to those tasks at once, he might leave some stones un-turned, get heavily exhausted or end up in an ugly mood. The best thing to do is to give him a list of those tasks and let him check them off one after th