Advanced Usage

This section covers advanced topics for customizing Queue Autoscale for Laravel to fit your specific needs.

Extensibility

Implement custom business logic and scaling strategies:

• Custom Strategies - Write your own scaling algorithms
• Scaling Policies - Add cross-cutting concerns and hooks

Production

Deploy and secure your autoscaler for production environments:

• Deployment - Production deployment guide
• Security - Security policy and best practices

Contributing

Help make Queue Autoscale for Laravel better:

• Contributing - Development guidelines and workflow

When to Use Custom Strategies

Custom strategies are useful when:

• You have unique business requirements not covered by the default hybrid algorithm
• You need to integrate with external systems for scaling decisions
• You want to implement domain-specific logic (e.g., cost optimization, customer tiers)
• You need to comply with specific SLA structures or regulatory requirements

When to Use Policies

Policies are ideal for:

• Logging and metrics collection
• Notifications (Slack, email, PagerDuty)
• Cost tracking and budget enforcement
• Integration with monitoring systems
• Custom validation logic
• Multi-stage approval workflows

Prerequisites

Before exploring advanced topics:

1. Understand the How It Works guide
2. Be familiar with Configuration options
3. Have the autoscaler running successfully in your environment

Example Use Cases

• Cost Optimization: Custom strategy that scales based on AWS Spot instance availability
• Multi-Tenant SLAs: Different strategies per customer tier (premium, standard, free)
• Business Hours: Policy that enforces different min/max workers during peak vs off-peak
• Budget Enforcement: Policy that prevents scaling beyond allocated cloud budget
• Compliance: Strategy that respects data residency and processing requirements