Deep dives into webhook engineering, cost analysis, architectural patterns, and practical guides from the team building GetHook.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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