Restarting Laravel Queue Workers Safely
When managing background processes or queue workers in a production environment, Supervisor is often the go-to process control system. But if you’ve ever worked with Supervisor on a Linux server, you've likely come across these two commands: sudo service supervisor restart && sudo supervisorctl restart [program_name] They might look similar at a glance — both contain the word restart — but they operate at very different levels and are used in very different situations. Let’s break down what each command does, when to use it, and what to avoid in a production environment.

When managing background processes or queue workers in a production environment, Supervisor is often the go-to process control system. But if you’ve ever worked with Supervisor on a Linux server, you've likely come across these two commands:
sudo service supervisor restart
&&
sudo supervisorctl restart [program_name]
They might look similar at a glance — both contain the word restart — but they operate at very different levels and are used in very different situations. Let’s break down what each command does, when to use it, and what to avoid in a production environment.