Showing posts with label workers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label workers. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 November 2026

Concurrency and Long-Running Workers in PHP: Managing State Safely

Concurrency and Long-Running Workers in PHP: Managing State Safely

A bug that appears only after an application has been running for several hours can be surprisingly difficult to track down.

A request works perfectly, then another request behaves strangely. Memory usage keeps increasing. A background job uses data it should never have seen. Restarting the worker fixes the problem, but only temporarily.