The API Rate Limit Catastrophe In modern B2B SaaS development at Smart Tech Devs, your application rarely lives in isolation. You constantly communicate with external services: billing via Stripe, CRM syncing via Salesforce, or email campaigns via Resend. The architectural trap occurs when you combine the immense speed of Laravel Queues with the strict rate limits of these third-party APIs. If you
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