As developers, it’s very important to identify our weaknesses in order to strengthen our defenses. Learning how to do this earlier on in our careers will help sustain us into the future.

In the January 2022 edition, my friend Chris Tankersley wrote Education Station: [Background Queues](https://phpa.me/background-queues), a fantastic primer for using background queues, or workers with your PHP application. This month we will implement [Laravel Horizon](https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/horizon), a dashboard monitor for your Redis queues.