Building Webhook As A Feature

Are you a technical architect focused on building a new integration method for your product? Webhook is on the mind? If yes, let's dive on.

Minimum requirements

HTTP status codes play a crucial role in webhook communication. A 200 status code for success, anything else is a failure delivery.

Idempotency: As an architect, add unique ID in the payload to indicate source system's identifier. The consumers will use this to check for duplicates

** Timeouts**: Add a strict 30 seconds timeout for your consumers.

Out-of-Order Events Always have a timestamp to your consumers can know out of order events and optimize to ignore stale events.

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References

Check out below articles for further reading.

1. A comprehensive guide on facts - what to consider as technical design for webhooks. https://beeceptor.com/docs/webhook-feature-design/
2. A philosophical and detailed essay on webhook design consideration: https://hookdeck.com/webhooks/guides/webhook-infrastructure-requirements-and-architecture#system-requirements-must-haves