Fixing RabbitMQ Heartbeat Drops in Laravel (ReactPHP & Bunny)
Are your Laravel queue workers dropping RabbitMQ connections? You aren't alone. Standard PHP is synchronous, meaning it struggles to keep TCP heartbeats alive.
Today, we are breaking the rules. We are injecting the ReactPHP Event Loop into a Laravel application to build a daemonized, bulletproof RabbitMQ worker using the Bunny Async client.
In this stream, we build:
A Singleton Async RabbitMQ Client.
A custom worker loop that stays alive for days.
Background concurrent heartbeats (so you never see a "broken pipe" again).
If you are scaling backend PHP services, this is the architecture you need.
Links & References:
React PHP: https://reactphp.org/
RabbitMQ Client: https://github.com/jakubkulhan/bunny
Tech Stack: PHP, Laravel, RabbitMQ, ReactPHP, Async
About Me:
I'm a Senior Software Engineer sharing my process of contributing to open-source software and exploring new developer tools. I focus on PHP, Go (Golang), System Architecture, and optimizing developer workflows.
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