Laravel Task Scheduling in Production: Overlap Locks, One-Server Runs, Timezones and Heartbeats
September 28, 2026 · Polish & Pixel Team
The scheduler is the least-monitored part of most Laravel apps and it fails silently. A production guide to schedule:run vs schedule:work, withoutOverlapping and onOneServer locking, DST and month-end traps, failure hooks, dead-man-switch pings, and testing your schedule in CI.
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