The Right Way to Handle AI API Timeouts in Laravel

When integrating third-party AI or LLM APIs into your application, running them synchronously inside your standard web controllers is an architectural trap. If the external API takes 10+ seconds to respond, your server's worker pool can exhaust its memory constraints rapidly.

To solve this, you must shift external execution tracks into decoupled, asynchronous background processes. Here is a lean, production-ready Laravel Job setup designed to safely handle external API latency:

namespace App\Jobs;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;