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Fixing Imagick's “not authorized” exception

October 26th, 2018 — Over the last few days we've had a couple of issues with Imagick and processing PDFs on our servers. As it turns out, these issues are caused by automatic security updates. Let's look into the issue and its solution.

Some notes on slow queues and Redis over TLS

January 4th, 2021 — When playing around with a load testing tool and Laravel queues I started noticing a weird pattern: every 22 dispatched jobs, there would be a 5 second delay on all queues before dispatching the next set off jobs. This only seemed to be the case using a DigitalOcean Droplet and their managed Redis servers.