Make vs n8n

Laravel Queue Stopped — Root Cause Was PHP-FPM

A developer debugging a Laravel application on a cPanel server discovered that recurring queue stoppages and Make.com request timeouts were caused by infrastructure issues rather than the queue itself. The queue worker had been started with nohup and disappeared after server restarts; moving execution to a cPanel Cron job with /bin/flock and --stop-when-empty made the worker lifecycle more resilient. Separately, slow or queued HTTP requests were traced to an overly conservative PHP-FPM configuration (pm.max_children = 5, pm.max_requests = 20, pm.process_idle_timeout = 10) on a 65 GB / 20-core server. The author recommends tuning PHP-FPM to match server capacity and diagnosing each layer independently.

• Laravel application ran on a cPanel server and used Redis for queueing.
• Initial queue worker was started with nohup and was killed by server restarts, requiring manual restarts.
• Queue execution was moved to cPanel Cron using /bin/flock and php artisan queue:work with --stop-when-empty.

n8n Still Relevant Despite Claude Code Rise

In a podcast episode, n8n CEO Jan Oberhauser discusses why n8n remains essential despite the rise of agentic coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code. He argues that n8n, as an orchestration layer, provides reliability, auditability, and team collaboration features that Claude Code lacks. The company has evolved from personal automation to business-critical workflows, with 200K+ GitHub stars, 1.5M active users, and 1,200 enterprise customers. SAP's investment at a $5.2B valuation and embedding n8n into Joule Studio highlight its enterprise relevance. Oberhauser recommends using Claude Code for rapid prototyping and n8n for production workflows requiring approvals, logging, and team hand-offs. He also shares insights into n8n's hiring approach, emphasizing technical depth and builder mentality.

• SAP invested in n8n at a $5.2B valuation in May 2025.
• n8n has 200K+ GitHub stars, 1.5M active users, and 1,200 enterprise customers.
• Claude Code surpassed n8n in search interest by the holidays of 2025.

EU Apply AI Summit to Showcase Real-World AI Adoption

On 17 November 2026, the European Commission's AI Office will host the Apply AI Summit in Brussels, focusing on practical AI adoption across European businesses and the public sector. The event, expected to draw about 900 in-person and 2,500 online attendees, will highlight real-world European AI use cases in healthcare, energy, mobility, manufacturing, and other sectors. It marks the first anniversary of the EU's Apply AI Strategy and serves as the closing event of the first European AI Innovation Month. The summit will feature keynotes from European Commission EVP Henna Virkkunen and other leaders, and will present the Apply AI Startup Award to emerging European AI companies. The event underscores Europe's push to move from experimentation to large-scale AI adoption, particularly among SMEs.

• The Apply AI Summit will be held in Brussels on 17 November 2026, organized by the European Commission's AI Office.
• Eurostat data shows 20% of EU enterprises with 10+ employees used AI in 2025, up from 13.5% in 2024.
• The summit marks the first anniversary of the European Commission's Apply AI Strategy and the closing of the European AI Innovation Month.

Introducing n8n Assistant

New blog post announcing the launch of n8n Assistant, a product feature. The post is authored by Paul Gordon and dated September 2026.