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Andrew McCombe • Edited

I did a similar thing but with the lookup taking place in a background job using SQS. A bug in the code meant the job always failed and got retried.

£20,000 later...

Luckily Google were cool about it.

Lesson: set decent retry counts on your Laravel worker jobs.