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Midnight Billing Cron Jobs Fail at Scale: Here's the Laravel Fix
A midnight cron job for subscription billing can max out database connections and hit Stripe rate limits when subscriber count grows from 400 to 40,000. The synchronous loop approach causes three-hour runtimes and crashes. The article explains how to build a scalable billing system in Laravel 13 using queues and batching.
Meridian48 take
While the article's advice is solid for Laravel developers, the core lesson—avoid synchronous billing at scale—applies to any tech stack, making this a useful reminder for startups that outgrow their initial architecture.
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