Queues are ways in which we enable our application to listen and act based on predefined events. They allow us to delay tasks that would otherwise interfere with the user experience or our application’s performance.  

From the Laravel docs, "Laravel queues provide a unified API across a variety of different queue backends, such as Beanstalk, Amazon SQS, Redis, or even a relational database."

What are we Building?

In this tutorial, we will be creating an application that utilizes Laravel queues to send our users “Happy Birthday” messages on their birthday. We will create a command that fetches all users whose birthdays are today, and sends them to the queue to be processed.

Pre-requisites

• Basic understanding of the Laravel framework
• Composer
• A Twilio Account and Twilio SDK credentials

Setting Up our Application

As our application is Laravel-based, we will create a new Laravel application. If you're not …