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Send SMS Updates for Background Tasks with Symfony Messenger and Twilio SMS

Blog post from Twilio

Post Details
Company
Date Published
Author
Alex Dunne
Word Count
2,115
Language
English
Hacker News Points
-
Summary

Symfony and Twilio are used to send SMS updates for background tasks. A form is created with a submit button that, when clicked, sends a message to the user's phone number indicating that their report has started processing. After 10-15 seconds, another message is sent when the report is completed. The heavy workload of generating the report is moved to the background using Symfony's Messenger Component and Redis, allowing the application to respond quickly to user requests.