Laravel queue rate limiting or throttling

Question

I am working on an app that requires fetching data from a third-party server and that server allows max 1 request per seconds.

Now, all request send as job and I am

Answer 1

Assuming you have only single worker you can do something like this:

• do what has to be done
• get time (with microseconds)
• sleep time that is 1s minus difference between finish time and start time

so basically:

doSomething()
$time = microtime(true);
usleep(1000 - ($time - LARAVEL_START));