Description: Build production-ready webhook systems through nine terrible examples—and the patterns to correct them.
Webhooks are important in modern web architectures, and are a fantastic alternative to costly polling, webhooks, or server-sent events. They allow your application (the producer ) to notify another application (the consumer ) when an event occurs.
Unfortunately, there are some pitfalls that teams run into when aiming to build world-class systems like they see deployed by companies like Stripe and Shopify. It’s important to explore these in order to avoid building a flawed (or even insecure) system.
Sending in the Request Handler