Asynchronous Function Call in PHP

Nowadays, it’s better to use queues than threads (for those who don’t use Laravel there are tons of other implementations out there like this).

The basic idea is, your original PHP script puts tasks or jobs into a queue. Then you have queue job workers running elsewhere, taking jobs out of the queue and starts processing them independently of the original PHP.

The advantages are:

  1. Scalability – you can just add worker nodes to keep up with demand. In this way, tasks are run in parallel.
  2. Reliability – modern queue managers such as RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, Redis, etc, are made to be extremely reliable.

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