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Laravel's RateLimited job middleware failed 240 of 300 jobs

Laravel's RateLimited job middleware protected a small tenant from a noisy one, and it also failed 240 of the noisy tenant's 300 jobs. In my lab, a limit of 20 jobs per second kept the small tenant's

Laravel per-tenant job limits compared: RateLimited with default tries failed 240 of 300 jobs while delay at dispatch failed none

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