What mechanisms in Laravel are used to run Job tasks?

In Laravel, tasks (Jobs) are executed using several mechanisms:

1. Queues — the primary method for running tasks in the background. Tasks are placed in a queue and processed by workers, which are started with the command php artisan queue:work.

2. Synchronous execution — if the queue is configured with the sync driver, the task is executed immediately upon call.

3. Task Scheduler — allows scheduling tasks to run at specific times using the dispatch() method inside commands that are run via cron.

Example of dispatching a task to the queue:

// Sending a task to the queue
MyJob::dispatch($data);

// Or with a delay
MyJob::dispatch($data)->delay(now()->addMinutes(10));

To process tasks, a worker is started:

php artisan queue:work

Thus, Laravel uses queues and workers for asynchronous task execution.