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    <title><![CDATA[GetHook Blog]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Accept, persist, route, and retry webhooks with guaranteed delivery. The webhook reliability gateway that's simpler than Hookdeck and cheaper than building your own.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Payload Transformation: Normalizing, Enriching, and Redacting Events at the Gateway]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-payload-transformation-gateway</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every provider speaks a different payload dialect. Instead of writing adapter code in every consumer, push normalization, enrichment, and sensitive-data redaction to the gateway layer — where it runs once and benefits everything downstream.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Priya Nair]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[gateway]]></category><category><![CDATA[data engineering]]></category><category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Delivery in Regulated Industries: SOC2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-delivery-regulated-industries-soc2-hipaa-pci</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Webhooks cross network boundaries and carry event data that, in healthcare, finance, and SaaS compliance programs, may be auditable, regulated, or subject to strict encryption requirements. Here's what SOC2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS actually require from your delivery infrastructure — and how to build for it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Marcus Webb]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[compliance]]></category><category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[HIPAA]]></category><category><![CDATA[SOC2]]></category><category><![CDATA[PCI-DSS]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Consumer Observability: Metrics and Alerts on the Receiving End]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-consumer-observability-metrics-alerts</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most webhook observability guides focus on the sender. If you're the team receiving webhooks, you have a different set of blind spots — and different metrics to watch. Here's how to instrument your consumer endpoints so failures surface before your users notice them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Lena Hartmann]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[metrics]]></category><category><![CDATA[alerting]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Designing a Great Webhook SDK: Verification, Typing, and Developer Ergonomics]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/designing-a-great-webhook-sdk</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most webhook SDKs are an afterthought — a thin wrapper around an HTTP client that leaves developers to figure out signature verification, payload typing, and idempotency on their own. Here's what a first-class webhook SDK actually looks like.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Finn Eriksson]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[sdk]]></category><category><![CDATA[developer-experience]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[typescript]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Synthetic End-to-End Testing for Webhook Delivery Pipelines]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/synthetic-end-to-end-webhook-pipeline-testing</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Unit tests and health checks don't tell you whether an event ingested right now will reach its destination in the next 30 seconds. Synthetic canary events do — and they catch the failures your other monitors miss.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Aleksa Vukovic]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[testing]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Change Data Capture: Triggering Webhooks Directly from Your Database]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/change-data-capture-webhooks-database-layer</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Application-layer webhook dispatch is brittle — if the process crashes between the DB write and the HTTP call, the event is lost. Change Data Capture lets you emit webhooks from the database transaction log itself, making delivery as durable as the write.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Priya Nair]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category><category><![CDATA[change data capture]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[PostgreSQL]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Using Webhooks as a Real-Time Analytics Ingestion Layer]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhooks-as-real-time-analytics-ingestion</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Webhooks are a low-latency source for analytics pipelines — if you handle schema drift, duplicate delivery, and late arrivals correctly. Here's how to build the ingestion layer without losing events or poisoning your warehouse.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Yuki Tanaka]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[analytics]]></category><category><![CDATA[data engineering]]></category><category><![CDATA[pipeline]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Preventing Webhook Replay Attacks: Beyond Timestamp Windows]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-replay-attack-prevention</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Signature verification proves a webhook was sent by a trusted party. It does not prove it was sent right now. Here's how replay attacks work, why timestamp windows are necessary but not sufficient, and how to build durable protection with nonce caching.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Nadia Kowalski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[authentication]]></category><category><![CDATA[replay-attacks]]></category><category><![CDATA[hmac]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Delivery Scheduling: Quiet Hours, Time Zones, and Burst Shaping for Global Customers]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-delivery-scheduling-quiet-hours-burst-shaping</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Not every customer wants webhooks landing at 3 AM or in a 10,000-event spike. Here's how to build delivery scheduling, quiet-hour windows, and burst shaping into your webhook infrastructure without sacrificing reliability.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Jordan Okafor]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[scheduling]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[rate-limiting]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Proactive Webhook Consumer Health Checks: Testing Endpoints Before Traffic Arrives]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/proactive-webhook-consumer-health-checks</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reactive health scoring tells you a destination is broken after deliveries fail. Proactive health checks let you detect endpoint problems before a single live event is affected — and route around them automatically.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Tomasz Brzezinski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[health-checks]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Secret Versioning: Running Multiple Active Signing Keys Without Breaking Consumers]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-secret-versioning-multiple-active-keys</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rotating webhook signing secrets is painful when consumers can only hold one key at a time. Secret versioning lets you run multiple valid keys simultaneously, making rotations gradual and zero-downtime by design.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Sofia Andreou]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[signing]]></category><category><![CDATA[key-management]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Stop Validating Webhooks Inside Your Application Code]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/stop-validating-webhooks-in-your-app-code</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Validation logic scattered across services creates silent failures, defensive null-checks, and bad data that reaches your database before anyone notices. The ingest gateway is the right place to enforce payload contracts — here's why and how.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Jordan Okafor]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[validation]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[backend]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[GetHook vs Svix: An Engineer's Guide to the Real Differences]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/gethook-vs-svix-engineers-guide</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Svix is a mature, well-regarded product. So is GetHook. But they solve meaningfully different problems — and choosing the wrong one will cost your team months of re-architecture. Here's an honest breakdown.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Aleksa Vukovic]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[comparison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Svix]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[GetHook vs Hookdeck: An Engineer's Honest Evaluation]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/gethook-vs-hookdeck-full-duplex-webhook-gateway</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hookdeck is a mature inbound webhook gateway with an excellent local dev story. GetHook handles both directions, costs less, and includes white-labeling on every plan. Here's how to decide which fits your architecture.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Aleksa Vukovic]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[comparison]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hookdeck]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Four Golden Signals Applied to Webhook Delivery Pipelines]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/four-golden-signals-webhook-delivery</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Latency, traffic, errors, and saturation were designed for request-response systems. Here's how to reframe each signal for the unique failure modes of webhook delivery infrastructure.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Lena Hartmann]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[monitoring]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[sre]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Writing a Webhook Consumer in Go: Idiomatic Patterns for Reliability]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/writing-a-webhook-consumer-in-go</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most webhook consumer bugs share the same root causes: synchronous processing, missing idempotency, skipped signature verification. Here's how to write a production-grade Go webhook handler that avoids all three.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Jordan Okafor]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[go]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[backend]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[patterns]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Retry Policy Design: Beyond Exponential Backoff]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-retry-policy-design-beyond-exponential-backoff</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Exponential backoff is the right starting point for webhook retries, but a production retry policy needs to handle HTTP status codes differently, respect destination health state, and avoid hammering an endpoint that is provably down.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Camille Beaumont]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[retry]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[backend]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[SSRF Prevention in Webhook Delivery Infrastructure]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-ssrf-prevention-delivery-infrastructure</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[When your platform lets users register arbitrary destination URLs, you've built a potential server-side request forgery vector. Here's how to close it — with URL validation, DNS rebinding defense, and safe HTTP client construction.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Nadia Kowalski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[ssrf]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Webhook Outbox Pattern: Surviving Application Crashes Between Processing and Delivery]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-outbox-pattern-surviving-crashes</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Your application commits a database transaction, then crashes before enqueuing the webhook. The event is lost and your customer never finds out. The transactional outbox pattern closes this gap permanently.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Yuki Tanaka]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[postgres]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[outbox pattern]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Payload Validation at the Gateway: Schema Enforcement Before Events Hit Your Queue]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-payload-validation-json-schema-gateway</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Accepting malformed webhook payloads into your delivery pipeline creates subtle bugs that surface hours later. Here's how to enforce JSON Schema validation at the gateway layer to reject bad events early, with real trade-offs and implementation details.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Marcus Webb]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[validation]]></category><category><![CDATA[json-schema]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Delivery Receipts: Giving Senders Visibility Into Consumer Outcomes]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-delivery-receipts-sender-visibility</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most webhook platforms tell you whether a delivery succeeded at the HTTP layer — but that's not the same as knowing whether your consumer processed the event correctly. Here's how to design delivery receipts that give senders meaningful signal without coupling them to consumer internals.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Finn Eriksson]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[API design]]></category><category><![CDATA[payments]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Designing for Webhook Consumer Failures: Backpressure, Graceful Degradation, and Recovery]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-consumer-graceful-degradation</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[When your webhook consumer can't keep up, the failure mode matters more than the failure itself. Here's how to design consumer endpoints that degrade gracefully, signal backpressure correctly, and recover cleanly — without losing events or triggering retry storms.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[backpressure]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[distributed-systems]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Batching: Sending and Receiving Events in Bulk Without Losing Reliability]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-batching-bulk-event-delivery</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Batching webhook events reduces overhead for both producers and consumers, but it introduces new failure modes that can silently drop events. Here's how to get the throughput wins while keeping delivery guarantees intact.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[batching]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Exactly-Once Delivery: Why It's Impossible and What to Do Instead]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-exactly-once-delivery-impossibility</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every webhook system eventually hears the request: 'Can you guarantee exactly-once delivery?' The honest answer is no — and understanding why leads to a design that's actually safer than any guarantee you could offer.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Priya Nair]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[idempotency]]></category><category><![CDATA[distributed-systems]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Cost Attribution: Measuring the True Infrastructure Cost Per Event]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-cost-attribution-per-event-infrastructure</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most teams treat webhook infrastructure as a fixed cost. It isn't. Here's how to model, attribute, and reduce the real cost per delivered event — before your bill surprises you.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Sofia Andreou]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[cost]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[operations]]></category><category><![CDATA[scalability]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Structured Logging for Your Webhook Delivery Pipeline]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/structured-logging-webhook-delivery-pipeline</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Unstructured logs are useless during a 2 AM incident. Here's how to emit actionable structured logs from every layer of your webhook pipeline — ingest, queue, delivery, and retry — so you can answer 'what happened to event X?' in under a minute.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Aleksa Vukovic]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[logging]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[debugging]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Multi-Tenant Webhook Ingest: One Endpoint, Many Tenants, Zero Leakage]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/multi-tenant-ingest-endpoint-tenant-isolation</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Running a single ingest endpoint for dozens of tenants is more than a routing problem — it's a security boundary. Here's how to accept third-party webhooks at scale while keeping tenant secrets, payloads, and delivery queues completely isolated.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[multi-tenancy]]></category><category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Infrastructure as Code: Terraform Patterns for Sources, Destinations, and Routes]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-infrastructure-as-code-terraform</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Webhook config managed through dashboards drifts, diverges across environments, and disappears when engineers leave. Here's how to declare sources, destinations, and routes in Terraform and promote them through environments like any other infrastructure.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Lena Hartmann]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[terraform]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure-as-code]]></category><category><![CDATA[devops]]></category><category><![CDATA[ci-cd]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Consumers in Serverless Environments: Lambda, Cloud Run, and the Cold Start Tax]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-consumers-serverless-lambda-cloud-run</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Running webhook consumers on serverless infrastructure sounds simple until your first cold start adds 2 seconds to a time-sensitive delivery. Here's how to tune Lambda and Cloud Run for reliable, low-latency webhook processing without abandoning the serverless model.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[serverless]]></category><category><![CDATA[aws-lambda]]></category><category><![CDATA[cloud-run]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Incident Runbooks: A Field Guide to Diagnosing Delivery Failures Under Pressure]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-incident-runbook-delivery-failures</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[When webhook delivery breaks at 2 AM, you need a decision tree, not a philosophy. Here's the structured runbook we use to triage, diagnose, and resolve webhook delivery incidents systematically.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Yuki Tanaka]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[incident response]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[operations]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Canary Delivery for Webhooks: Validating New Consumer Logic Against Live Traffic]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-canary-delivery-consumer-validation</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-canary-delivery-consumer-validation</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Rolling out a new webhook handler without routing real traffic to it first is a gamble. Canary delivery lets you split a percentage of live events to a new consumer version, compare outcomes, and promote safely — without a maintenance window.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[deployment]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category><category><![CDATA[progressive delivery]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Header Design: The Metadata Layer That Makes Payloads Debuggable]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-header-design-metadata-debugging</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-header-design-metadata-debugging</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The payload gets all the attention, but the headers are what make a webhook integration actually operable. Here's how to design a header set that enables fast debugging, reliable deduplication, and clean observability — for both inbound and outbound webhooks.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Marcus Webb]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[API design]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[developer experience]]></category><category><![CDATA[platform]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Adaptive Webhook Timeouts: Tuning Per-Destination Policies from Historical Data]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/adaptive-webhook-timeouts-per-destination-tuning</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/adaptive-webhook-timeouts-per-destination-tuning</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A fixed 10-second timeout for every destination is a lazy default that costs you false failures and wasted retry capacity. Here's how to build per-destination timeout policies that adapt to observed latency patterns.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Lena Hartmann]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[latency]]></category><category><![CDATA[operations]]></category>
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    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Concurrency Control: Preventing Parallel Delivery to the Same Destination]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-concurrency-control-per-destination-limits</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-concurrency-control-per-destination-limits</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Running multiple delivery workers is great for throughput — until they all hit the same fragile endpoint simultaneously. Here's how to implement per-destination concurrency limits that keep your delivery pipeline fast without overwhelming consumer services.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Camille Beaumont]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[concurrency]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[delivery]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Replaying Webhooks After a Bad Deploy: Re-Processing Events Your Handler Got Wrong]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/replaying-webhooks-after-bad-deploy</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/replaying-webhooks-after-bad-deploy</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[You shipped a bug in your webhook handler and events were processed incorrectly for the last four hours. Here's how to replay only the affected events, in the right order, without re-triggering side effects you've already fixed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Yuki Tanaka]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[event replay]]></category><category><![CDATA[debugging]]></category><category><![CDATA[operations]]></category>
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    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Gateway Disaster Recovery: What to Do When Your Gateway Goes Down]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-gateway-disaster-recovery</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-gateway-disaster-recovery</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Your webhook gateway is the single point of contact between upstream providers and your system. When it goes down, events stop flowing. Here's how to design for recoverability — without losing a single event.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Jordan Okafor]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[disaster recovery]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Webhook Cold Start Problem: Safely Bootstrapping a New Consumer Endpoint]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-cold-start-bootstrapping-new-consumer</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-cold-start-bootstrapping-new-consumer</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Subscribing a new endpoint to an existing webhook stream is harder than it looks. Here's how to catch up on missed events, avoid re-processing old ones, and get your new consumer to steady state without data loss or duplicate side effects.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Priya Nair]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[onboarding]]></category><category><![CDATA[replay]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Consumer Versioning: Deploying Payload Changes Without Breaking Live Integrations]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-consumer-versioning-safe-payload-changes</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-consumer-versioning-safe-payload-changes</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When a provider changes their webhook payload, your consumers break. Here's how to write webhook handlers that survive schema evolution — and how to ship breaking changes on your own platform without a maintenance window.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Finn Eriksson]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[schema evolution]]></category><category><![CDATA[API design]]></category><category><![CDATA[versioning]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mirroring Production Webhook Traffic to Staging]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/mirroring-production-webhook-traffic-to-staging</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/mirroring-production-webhook-traffic-to-staging</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Running integration tests against synthetic payloads only catches what you anticipated. Here's how to shadow real production webhook traffic to a staging environment so you can validate code changes against the events that actually show up.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Lena Hartmann]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[testing]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[staging]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook IP Allowlisting: Automating CIDR Sync When You Can't Avoid It]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-ip-allowlisting-cidr-automation</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-ip-allowlisting-cidr-automation</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Security teams often mandate IP allowlisting for inbound webhook traffic — but provider CIDR ranges change without warning. Here's how to automate CIDR synchronization reliably, and when HMAC signature verification is the stronger answer.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Tomasz Brzezinski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[networking]]></category><category><![CDATA[operations]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Consumer Timeouts: Why Your Endpoint's Response Time Is Your Most Important Reliability Metric]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-consumer-timeout-response-time</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-consumer-timeout-response-time</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Most webhook reliability conversations focus on the sender. But the single biggest source of delivery failures is often the consumer endpoint timing out. Here's how to design, measure, and defend your response time SLA.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[performance]]></category><category><![CDATA[backend]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Event Priority Queues: Delivering Critical Alerts Before Bulk Notifications]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-event-priority-queues</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-event-priority-queues</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Not every webhook is equally urgent. A failed payment alert and a nightly analytics digest should not compete for the same delivery slot. Here's how to implement priority-aware webhook delivery without overengineering your infrastructure.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Jordan Okafor]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[queues]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[backend]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Correlating Webhook Events Across Providers: Building a Unified Event Timeline]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/correlating-webhook-events-across-providers</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/correlating-webhook-events-across-providers</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A single business transaction can generate webhooks from Stripe, SendGrid, and PagerDuty simultaneously. Here's how to correlate events across providers into a coherent timeline your team can actually debug.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[distributed-systems]]></category><category><![CDATA[debugging]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Audit Logs: Building a Tamper-Evident Event Trail for Compliance]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-audit-logs-tamper-evident-compliance</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-audit-logs-tamper-evident-compliance</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Delivery logs tell you what happened. Audit logs prove it. Here's how to build a tamper-evident webhook audit trail that satisfies SOC 2, PCI DSS, and internal security reviews.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Nadia Kowalski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[compliance]]></category><category><![CDATA[audit]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[soc2]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Graceful Shutdown for Webhook Workers: Draining In-Flight Deliveries Without Dropping Events]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/graceful-shutdown-webhook-workers</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/graceful-shutdown-webhook-workers</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Deploying a new version of your webhook worker shouldn't lose events. Here's how to implement graceful shutdown that drains in-flight deliveries, releases queue locks, and exits cleanly — every time.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Camille Beaumont]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[go]]></category><category><![CDATA[deployment]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Event Filtering and Conditional Routing: Reducing Noise at the Gateway]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-event-filtering-conditional-routing</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-event-filtering-conditional-routing</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Sending every event to every destination is the easiest implementation and the worst for reliability. Here's how to design event filtering and conditional routing so consumers only receive the events they actually need.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Marcus Webb]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[routing]]></category><category><![CDATA[filtering]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Load Testing Your Webhook Pipeline Before Production Does It for You]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/load-testing-webhook-pipeline</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/load-testing-webhook-pipeline</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Most webhook outages are discoverable in advance. Here's how to stress-test your ingest, queue, and delivery layers with realistic traffic before a provider burst or launch spike finds the breaking points first.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[load testing]]></category><category><![CDATA[performance]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Signature Verification Performance: Avoiding the Crypto Bottleneck at Scale]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-signature-verification-performance</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-signature-verification-performance</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[HMAC-SHA256 verification is cheap per request but expensive in aggregate. Here's how high-throughput systems keep verification off the critical path without weakening security.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Finn Eriksson]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[performance]]></category><category><![CDATA[hmac]]></category><category><![CDATA[scalability]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Schema Contracts: Preventing Breaking Changes Between Producers and Consumers]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-schema-contracts-preventing-breaking-changes</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-schema-contracts-preventing-breaking-changes</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Webhook payloads change over time, and unlike REST APIs, there's no client library to absorb the difference. Here's how to version schemas, enforce backward compatibility, and prevent downstream breakage before it reaches production.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[schema]]></category><category><![CDATA[versioning]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Retry Storms: How Cascading Failures Amplify Outages]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-retry-storms-cascading-failures</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-retry-storms-cascading-failures</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When a destination goes down, every upstream sender starts retrying simultaneously. Here's how retry storms form, why they extend outages, and the patterns that prevent them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Marcus Webb]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[retry]]></category><category><![CDATA[backpressure]]></category><category><![CDATA[incident response]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Destination Health Scoring: Detecting and Disabling Unhealthy Endpoints]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-destination-health-scoring</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-destination-health-scoring</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Blindly retrying every failed webhook delivery wastes resources and delays real alerts. A health scoring system lets you identify degraded destinations early, pause delivery automatically, and surface the right signal to your customers.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Tomasz Brzezinski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[delivery]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Delivery at the Edge: Reducing Latency with Regional Forwarding]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-delivery-at-the-edge-regional-forwarding</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-delivery-at-the-edge-regional-forwarding</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When your webhook gateway lives in us-east-1 and your customer's endpoint is in Tokyo, every delivery pays a 200ms tax. Here's how to architect regional forwarding to cut delivery latency without duplicating your entire infrastructure stack.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Lena Hartmann]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[performance]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[global delivery]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Per-Destination Throttling: Respecting Rate Limits on Webhook Delivery]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/per-destination-rate-limit-throttling</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/per-destination-rate-limit-throttling</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When a destination returns 429, your delivery engine needs to do more than retry — it needs to pause, back off per endpoint, and keep delivering to everyone else. Here's how to build per-destination throttling that doesn't stall your entire worker pool.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[rate limiting]]></category><category><![CDATA[delivery engine]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Designing a Webhook Event Catalog for Developer Self-Service]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-event-catalog-developer-self-service</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-event-catalog-developer-self-service</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A well-designed event catalog lets developers discover, understand, and subscribe to webhook events without filing a support ticket. Here's how to structure one — from naming conventions to discovery APIs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Jordan Okafor]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[developer experience]]></category><category><![CDATA[API design]]></category><category><![CDATA[documentation]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Acknowledgment Patterns: Timeout Budgets and the 5-Second Rule]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-acknowledgment-timeout-patterns</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-acknowledgment-timeout-patterns</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Most webhook failures start before your business logic ever runs. Understanding acknowledgment timeouts, async handoff patterns, and provider retry behavior is the foundation of a reliable webhook consumer.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Tomasz Brzezinski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[backend]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Provider Webhook Quirks: Twilio, SendGrid, PagerDuty, and HubSpot]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/provider-webhook-quirks-twilio-sendgrid-pagerduty-hubspot</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/provider-webhook-quirks-twilio-sendgrid-pagerduty-hubspot</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Every major SaaS provider sends webhooks a little differently — different content types, batching strategies, and signature schemes. Here's what you actually need to know before you go to production with any of them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Priya Nair]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[integration]]></category><category><![CDATA[twilio]]></category><category><![CDATA[sendgrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[pagerduty]]></category><category><![CDATA[hubspot]]></category><category><![CDATA[tutorial]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Developing and Testing Webhooks Locally: Moving Beyond ngrok]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/local-webhook-development-beyond-ngrok</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/local-webhook-development-beyond-ngrok</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Tunnels get you started, but they break in CI, require accounts, and route your dev traffic through third-party servers. Here's a more reliable approach to local webhook development using record-replay, local test harnesses, and injectable handler design.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Aleksa Vukovic]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[developer experience]]></category><category><![CDATA[testing]]></category><category><![CDATA[local development]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ordering Guarantees in Webhook Delivery: When They Matter and How to Enforce Them]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-ordering-guarantees</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-ordering-guarantees</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Most webhook systems deliver events out of order by default. For most use cases that's fine — but for financial state machines, inventory systems, and audit logs, out-of-order delivery causes real bugs. Here's how to reason about ordering and enforce it when you need it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Finn Eriksson]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[ordering]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[payments]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building a Webhook Status Page for Your Customers]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/building-a-webhook-status-page</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/building-a-webhook-status-page</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When webhook delivery breaks, your customers feel it before you do. Here's how to build a public-facing status page that turns a support crisis into a self-service moment.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Sofia Andreou]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[developer experience]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[customer trust]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Payload Encryption: End-to-End Confidentiality Beyond HTTPS]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-payload-encryption-end-to-end-confidentiality</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-payload-encryption-end-to-end-confidentiality</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[TLS protects webhooks in transit, but it doesn't protect them at rest inside a gateway, in logs, or at your destination. Here's how to add payload-level encryption when HTTPS alone isn't enough.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Nadia Kowalski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[encryption]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[compliance]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Consumer-Driven Contract Testing for Webhooks]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/consumer-driven-contract-testing-webhooks</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/consumer-driven-contract-testing-webhooks</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Breaking changes in webhook payloads are silent failures — your consumers crash, you find out from an angry customer. Contract testing catches these breaks in CI before they ever reach production.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Jordan Okafor]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[testing]]></category><category><![CDATA[contract testing]]></category><category><![CDATA[CI/CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category>
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    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Deduplication: Identifying and Handling Duplicate Events at Scale]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-deduplication-handling-duplicate-events</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-deduplication-handling-duplicate-events</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Duplicate webhook events are inevitable — providers retry, networks glitch, and load balancers replay requests. Here's how to detect and discard duplicates before they reach your services.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Sofia Andreou]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[deduplication]]></category><category><![CDATA[idempotency]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[best practices]]></category>
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    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[Outbound Webhook Subscriptions: Building a Self-Serve Portal for Your Customers]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/outbound-webhook-subscriptions-self-serve-portal</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/outbound-webhook-subscriptions-self-serve-portal</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[If your SaaS product sends webhooks, your customers need a way to register endpoints, rotate secrets, filter event types, and debug deliveries without filing a support ticket. Here's how to build that portal correctly.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Yuki Tanaka]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[platform engineering]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[developer experience]]></category><category><![CDATA[multi-tenant]]></category>
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    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[Circuit Breakers for Webhook Delivery: Protecting Unhealthy Destinations]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/circuit-breakers-for-webhook-delivery</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/circuit-breakers-for-webhook-delivery</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Retrying webhooks to a destination that is completely down wastes worker capacity and delays delivery to every other endpoint. Here's how to implement a circuit breaker that detects unhealthy destinations, backs off intelligently, and recovers automatically.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[circuit breaker]]></category><category><![CDATA[delivery]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[postgres]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[At-Least-Once Delivery: Writing Webhook Consumers That Handle Duplicates Safely]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/at-least-once-delivery-webhook-consumers</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/at-least-once-delivery-webhook-consumers</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Every webhook system guarantees at-least-once delivery — which means your consumer will receive the same event more than once. Here's how to build handlers that tolerate duplicates without corrupting your data.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Tomasz Brzezinski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[idempotency]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[backend engineering]]></category>
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    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Backpressure: Handling a Growing Delivery Queue Without Dropping Events]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-backpressure-handling-growing-delivery-queue</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-backpressure-handling-growing-delivery-queue</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When your delivery queue grows faster than your workers drain it, you have a backpressure problem. Here's how to detect it early, respond to it gracefully, and design your webhook infrastructure so a slow destination can't take down the rest.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Camille Beaumont]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[postgres]]></category><category><![CDATA[queues]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Provider-Specific Webhook Quirks: Twilio, SendGrid, PagerDuty, and HubSpot]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/provider-quirks-twilio-sendgrid-pagerduty-hubspot</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/provider-quirks-twilio-sendgrid-pagerduty-hubspot</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Every webhook provider has undocumented edge cases that will burn you in production. Here's what we've learned integrating Twilio, SendGrid, PagerDuty, and HubSpot so you don't have to find out the hard way.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Aleksa Vukovic]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[integrations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Twilio]]></category><category><![CDATA[SendGrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[PagerDuty]]></category><category><![CDATA[HubSpot]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Debug a Webhook Integration in Under 10 Minutes]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/how-to-debug-a-webhook-integration</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/how-to-debug-a-webhook-integration</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Webhook failures are frustrating because the problem could be anywhere — the sender, the network, your endpoint, or your code. This guide gives you a repeatable 10-minute debugging process that narrows down the root cause fast.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Aleksa Vukovic]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[debugging]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[developer experience]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category>
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    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[Building a Webhook Status Page for Your Customers]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/building-a-webhook-status-page-for-customers</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/building-a-webhook-status-page-for-customers</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When your webhook delivery is degraded, your customers find out before you do — from their own error logs. A customer-facing webhook status page turns reactive support tickets into proactive transparency and cuts incident response time in half.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Marcus Webb]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[customer experience]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building a Webhook Playground for Developer Testing]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/building-a-webhook-playground-for-developer-testing</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/building-a-webhook-playground-for-developer-testing</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A webhook playground lets developers send, inspect, and replay test events without touching production infrastructure. Here's how to design and build one that engineers actually use.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Finn Eriksson]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[developer experience]]></category><category><![CDATA[testing]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[Async API Design: REST, Webhooks, SSE, and WebSockets Compared]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/async-api-design-rest-webhooks-sse-websockets</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/async-api-design-rest-webhooks-sse-websockets</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Choosing the wrong async pattern creates reliability headaches and wasted infrastructure spend. Here's a practical decision framework for REST polling, webhooks, Server-Sent Events, and WebSockets.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Priya Nair]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[API design]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[real-time]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhooks for Internal Microservice Communication: When to Use Them vs. Kafka and NATS]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhooks-vs-kafka-nats-microservices</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhooks-vs-kafka-nats-microservices</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Kafka and NATS get all the attention for internal event-driven systems, but HTTP webhooks are often the right choice — and teams dismiss them too quickly. Here's a clear-eyed comparison of the trade-offs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Camille Beaumont]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[microservices]]></category><category><![CDATA[kafka]]></category><category><![CDATA[event-driven]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category>
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    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[SNS vs SQS vs Webhooks: When to Use Each]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/sns-vs-sqs-vs-webhooks</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/sns-vs-sqs-vs-webhooks</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[All three move data between systems asynchronously, but they operate at different layers, make different reliability guarantees, and break in completely different ways. Here's how to pick the right tool — and when to combine them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Aleksa Vukovic]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[aws]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[event-driven]]></category><category><![CDATA[messaging]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Zero-Downtime Secret Rotation for Webhook Signing Keys]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/zero-downtime-webhook-secret-rotation</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/zero-downtime-webhook-secret-rotation</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Rotating a webhook signing secret without dropping events or breaking consumer integrations requires more than swapping a value in your config. Here's the dual-secret overlap pattern that lets you rotate safely, with no coordination window required.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Camille Beaumont]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[secret rotation]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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    <item>
      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Pagination and Cursor-Based Event Replay]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-pagination-cursor-based-event-replay</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-pagination-cursor-based-event-replay</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Offset-based pagination breaks under high insert rates and makes reliable event replay nearly impossible. Here's how cursor-based pagination fixes both problems and what your API and replay infrastructure should look like.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Lena Hartmann]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[pagination]]></category><category><![CDATA[event replay]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[postgres]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[GDPR and Webhook Data Retention: What to Log, What to Delete]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/gdpr-webhook-data-retention</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/gdpr-webhook-data-retention</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Webhook payloads routinely contain personal data — email addresses, order details, user IDs. Under GDPR, storing that data indefinitely is a liability. Here's a practical framework for what to log, how long to keep it, and how to delete it without breaking your replay guarantees.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Nadia Kowalski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[GDPR]]></category><category><![CDATA[compliance]]></category><category><![CDATA[data retention]]></category><category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Fanout: Routing One Event to 50 Destinations Reliably]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-fanout-routing-one-event-to-many-destinations</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-fanout-routing-one-event-to-many-destinations</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Fanout sounds simple — receive one event, deliver to many destinations. In practice it surfaces ordering problems, partial failure scenarios, and queue design challenges that aren't obvious until you're debugging at 2am.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[fanout]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[distributed systems]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Fan-In: Aggregating Events from Multiple Providers]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-fan-in-aggregating-multiple-providers</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-fan-in-aggregating-multiple-providers</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When your system receives webhooks from Stripe, GitHub, Twilio, and Shopify simultaneously, you need more than just a pile of endpoints. Fan-in architecture gives you a single, normalized event stream with unified retry, deduplication, and observability.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Jordan Okafor]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[event-driven]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Delivery SLAs: How to Define and Measure Them]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-delivery-slas</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-delivery-slas</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Most teams operate webhook infrastructure without any formal delivery SLA — until a customer contract demands one. Here's how to define meaningful SLA targets, instrument your system to measure them, and know when you're violating them before your customers do.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Marcus Webb]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[SLA]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tracing a Webhook Through Your Entire Stack with OpenTelemetry]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/tracing-webhooks-with-opentelemetry</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/tracing-webhooks-with-opentelemetry</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Webhook failures are hard to debug because the event touches multiple services before it either delivers or dies. Here's how to wire OpenTelemetry end-to-end so you can follow a single webhook from ingest to delivery in one trace waterfall.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[opentelemetry]]></category><category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[distributed tracing]]></category><category><![CDATA[debugging]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Migrating from Polling to Webhooks: A Step-by-Step Guide]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/migrating-from-polling-to-webhooks</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/migrating-from-polling-to-webhooks</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Polling is the training wheels of API integrations. Here's how to replace it with a production-grade webhook integration — without dropping events during the cutover.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Aleksa Vukovic]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[migration]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Handling Webhook Bursts From Third-Party Providers]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/handling-webhook-bursts-black-friday</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/handling-webhook-bursts-black-friday</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When Stripe sends 40,000 events in 90 seconds because your Black Friday sale just started, your webhook infrastructure needs a plan. Here's how to absorb traffic spikes without dropping events or overwhelming your downstream services.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[scalability]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Testing Webhook Integrations in CI/CD Pipelines]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/testing-webhook-integrations-ci-cd</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/testing-webhook-integrations-ci-cd</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Webhooks are notoriously hard to test in automated pipelines — they're async, they require a reachable HTTP endpoint, and third-party providers can't push to localhost. Here's how to build a reliable CI/CD testing strategy that actually catches webhook bugs before production.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[testing]]></category><category><![CDATA[CI/CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category><category><![CDATA[integration tests]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[mTLS Authentication for High-Security Webhook Destinations]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/mtls-authentication-webhook-destinations</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/mtls-authentication-webhook-destinations</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Standard HMAC signatures verify payload integrity, but they don't authenticate the transport layer. Mutual TLS closes that gap — here's how to implement mTLS for webhook delivery when the stakes are high.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[mTLS]]></category><category><![CDATA[TLS]]></category><category><![CDATA[authentication]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Event-Driven Architecture with Webhooks: Patterns That Scale]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/event-driven-architecture-webhooks</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/event-driven-architecture-webhooks</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Webhooks are the simplest form of event-driven architecture — but applying the right patterns separates a brittle integration from a resilient system. Here are the architectural patterns that work at scale.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Priya Nair]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[event-driven]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[patterns]]></category><category><![CDATA[distributed systems]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Rate Limiting: Protecting Your Infrastructure Without Losing Events]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-rate-limiting-protection</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-rate-limiting-protection</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Naive rate limiting on webhook endpoints drops events permanently. Here's how to implement rate limiting that protects your infrastructure while ensuring every event is eventually delivered — with the right strategies for inbound and outbound flows.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Tomasz Brzezinski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[rate limiting]]></category><category><![CDATA[scaling]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Outbound Webhooks: Building the Provider Side of Your SaaS Platform]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/building-outbound-webhooks-saas</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/building-outbound-webhooks-saas</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Most webhook guides cover consuming webhooks. This one covers the other side — building the outbound webhook system that lets your customers subscribe to events happening in your platform.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Yuki Tanaka]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[outbound webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[platform]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Event Schema Design: Versioning, Backwards Compatibility, and Migration]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-event-schema-versioning</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-event-schema-versioning</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The event schemas you ship today will need to evolve. Poor schema design creates breaking changes that knock out customer integrations. Here's how to design webhook payloads for long-term maintainability.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Marcus Webb]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[schema design]]></category><category><![CDATA[API design]]></category><category><![CDATA[versioning]]></category><category><![CDATA[platform]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Security Checklist: 12 Things to Audit Before Going to Production]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-security-audit-checklist</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-security-audit-checklist</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Webhook endpoints are HTTP endpoints with real-world consequences — a single vulnerability can lead to unauthorized charges, data exfiltration, or complete account takeover. Here's a security audit checklist for both inbound and outbound webhook infrastructure.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Nadia Kowalski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[audit]]></category><category><![CDATA[best practices]]></category><category><![CDATA[production]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Idempotency Keys: Building Exactly-Once Webhook Processing]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/idempotency-keys-webhook-processing</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/idempotency-keys-webhook-processing</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Webhooks get retried. Your handler will be called more than once for the same event. Here's how to build idempotent handlers that process each event exactly once — regardless of how many times it arrives.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Jordan Okafor]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[idempotency]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category><category><![CDATA[patterns]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[White-Labeling Your Webhook Infrastructure for B2B SaaS]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/white-labeling-webhook-infrastructure</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/white-labeling-webhook-infrastructure</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Your enterprise customers want webhooks under their own brand — custom domains, your company's logo, their developers' experience. Here's the architecture for building a white-label webhook platform on top of GetHook.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Camille Beaumont]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[white-labeling]]></category><category><![CDATA[B2B]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhook Observability: Metrics, Logs, and Alerts You Actually Need]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most teams only discover webhook problems when customers complain. Here's how to build proper observability for your webhook infrastructure — the signals that matter, the dashboards that help, and the alerts that wake you up at the right time.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Lena Hartmann]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[observability]]></category><category><![CDATA[monitoring]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shopify Webhook Integration: Order Events, HMAC Verification, and Production Gotchas]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/shopify-webhook-integration-guide</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Shopify's webhook system powers order fulfillment, inventory sync, and customer lifecycle automation. Here's how to integrate it correctly — including the quirks that will catch you in production.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Finn Eriksson]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[Shopify]]></category><category><![CDATA[ecommerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[tutorial]]></category><category><![CDATA[integration]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dead Letter Queues: What To Do When Webhooks Stop Retrying]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/dead-letter-queues-webhook-failures</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[After 5 failed delivery attempts, an event lands in the dead-letter queue. Now what? A systematic guide to triaging DLQ events, diagnosing root causes, replaying safely, and preventing accumulation.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[dead letter queue]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[GitHub Webhooks: Complete Integration Guide]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/github-webhooks-complete-guide</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Push events, pull request hooks, Actions status updates — a complete guide to integrating GitHub webhooks reliably, including signature verification, event filtering, and handling the volume spikes that catch teams off guard.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Aleksa Vukovic]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[GitHub]]></category><category><![CDATA[tutorial]]></category><category><![CDATA[integration]]></category><category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Multi-Tenant Webhook Architecture: How to Deliver Events to Thousands of Customers]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/multi-tenant-webhook-architecture</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Per-customer signing secrets, tenant data isolation, white-labeled portals, and the database-level patterns that make multi-tenant webhook delivery safe and scalable.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Camille Beaumont]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[multi-tenant]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Scaling Webhook Infrastructure to 1 Million Events Per Day]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/scaling-to-1m-events-per-day</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Capacity planning, database indexes, worker concurrency, connection pooling, and the exact architectural decisions we made to handle 1M+ daily events on a Postgres-based stack.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Tomasz Brzezinski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[scaling]]></category><category><![CDATA[performance]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[postgresql]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[From Zero to Production: Webhook Infrastructure for Startups]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhook-infrastructure-for-startups</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A practical guide to setting up webhook infrastructure at each stage of startup growth — from MVP to Series A to scale — with architecture diagrams and cost benchmarks.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Yuki Tanaka]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[startups]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[guide]]></category><category><![CDATA[best practices]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[HMAC Signatures Explained: Securing Your Webhooks End-to-End]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Nadia Kowalski]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[security]]></category><category><![CDATA[HMAC]]></category><category><![CDATA[cryptography]]></category><category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[GetHook vs Hookdeck vs Svix: A Full Feature & Price Comparison]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/gethook-vs-hookdeck-vs-svix-comparison</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[We compare GetHook, Hookdeck, and Svix across pricing, features, deployment model, and developer experience — so you can pick the right webhook infrastructure for your stack.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Priya Nair]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[comparison]]></category><category><![CDATA[pricing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Svix]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hookdeck]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[PostgreSQL as a Job Queue: No Redis, No Kafka, No Problem]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/postgres-as-job-queue</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[PostgreSQL's FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED pattern is underrated for job queues. Here's why it works, when it breaks down, and a complete schema for building one in production.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Lena Hartmann]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[postgresql]]></category><category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category><category><![CDATA[job queue]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The True Cost of Building Webhook Infrastructure In-House]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Marcus Webb]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[cost analysis]]></category><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><category><![CDATA[ROI]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Exponential Backoff and Retry: The Pattern Behind Reliable Event Delivery]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Dmitri Volkov]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[retry logic]]></category><category><![CDATA[distributed systems]]></category><category><![CDATA[patterns]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Webhooks Fail (And How to Stop Losing Events)]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/why-webhooks-fail</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Network timeouts, database write failures, ephemeral server restarts — we analyze the 7 most common causes of webhook delivery failure and the engineering patterns that fix them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Jordan Okafor]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category><category><![CDATA[failure modes]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Hidden Financial Impact of Webhook Downtime]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lost payment events, stalled order fulfillment, broken CI/CD pipelines — we quantify the real business cost of webhook delivery failures and how often they happen.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Sofia Andreou]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[business impact]]></category><category><![CDATA[SLA]]></category><category><![CDATA[reliability]]></category><category><![CDATA[cost]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Webhooks 101: A Developer's Complete Guide]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/webhooks-101-complete-guide</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[From the basics of HTTP callbacks to HMAC verification, retry logic, and fan-out routing — everything you need to know to build reliable webhook integrations.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Aleksa Vukovic]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[webhooks]]></category><category><![CDATA[tutorial]]></category><category><![CDATA[fundamentals]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Complete Stripe Webhook Integration Guide (2025 Edition)]]></title>
      <link>https://gethook.to/blog/stripe-webhook-integration-guide</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://gethook.to/blog/stripe-webhook-integration-guide</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Step-by-step: set up Stripe webhooks locally with the Stripe CLI, implement HMAC-SHA256 verification, handle all critical payment events, and achieve 99.9% delivery reliability.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author><![CDATA[Finn Eriksson]]></author>
      <category><![CDATA[Stripe]]></category><category><![CDATA[payments]]></category><category><![CDATA[tutorial]]></category><category><![CDATA[integration]]></category>
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